[Samba] Re: Samba doesn't ask for a password

[Udo]

Well, well, well... now I'm feeling really stupid! I did _not_ set a
password for the users on the Samba server! This happened because Webmin
has a "Convert Unix users to Samba users" function. I simply thought this
was a "magic" function that would also define the passwords for the Samba
users, but it dons't (and now, as far as I understood, it couldn't even do
that). I now set the passwords and everything is ok.

Thank you very much, Thomas!
udo

Thomas Klettke wrote:

> Just to be sure: Did you set a password for the users on the Samba
> server?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 16:53, Udo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I installed Samba 3.0.2a (on Mandrake 10.0). I created 2 users on the
>> Linux box, which I "converted" to Samba users (using de Webmin
>> interface). The Samba server is running.
>> On a Win98 I log in (log in the win98 box -- no domain set, only
>> workgroup!) using one of the users I created. I do not use any password,
>> neither is Win98 configured to verify any passwords. I simply type in a
>> username, no password. It's that old simple network login window.
>> Well, now I open \\vovo\udo (the user I used to log in to the win98
>> machine) 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, which it never did. I deleted de .pwl files on the
>> windows machine and got the same behavior.
>> 
>> How do I tell Samba to ask for the users' password to connect to one
>> users' home? After reading the docs I googled for a long time now, and
>> haven't found anything that helped me to solve this. Actually, the way I
>> undestood the docs, it should be pretty simple to do this, but I simply
>> can't figure it out!
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>> 
>> Btw, below is my smb.conf. It may be a little messed up now, 'cause I
>> already tried a lot of different options.
>> 
>> udo
>> #---------------------------------------------------------
>> [global]
>>         workgroup = HOTUP
>>         server string = Samba Server %v
>>         log level = 4
>>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>         max log size = 50
>>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>         printcap name = cups
>>         dns proxy = No
>>         ldap ssl = no
>>         printer admin = @adm
>>         printing = cups
>> 
>> [homes]
>>         comment = Home Directories
>>         read only = No
>>         browseable = No
>> 
>> [printers]
>>         comment = All Printers
>>         path = /var/spool/samba
>>         create mask = 0700
>>         guest ok = Yes
>>         printable = Yes
>>         print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client side
>> printer drivers.
>>         browseable = No
>> 
>> [print$]
>>         path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>>         write list = @adm, root
>>         inherit permissions = Yes
>>         guest ok = Yes
>> 
>> [pdf-generator]
>>         comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
>>         path = /var/tmp
>>         printable = Yes
>>         print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u
>>         %m
>> %I "%J" &
>> 
>> [publico]
>>         path = /public
>>         read only = No