[Samba] Samba doesn't ask for a password

Tim Tait t.tait at comcast.net
Sat Jul 10 02:52:13 GMT 2004


Udo wrote:

>and I can see and edit the files of this users' home directory on the Linux
>(Samba) server. I can even open \\vovo\horst, which is the other users'
>home, but read-only in that case. But I need samba to ask for a password,
>  
>
I had the same problem. You need to add a path statement to the [homes] 
share: "path = /home/%U" for example. That forces it to be the directory 
of the logged in user (%U).

Tim



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