[Samba] Something Strange in NET Mapping Going On Here.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:56:14PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 14:50, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I was poking around on my Windows mapping and was able to map a network
> > drive like:
> >
> > C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\lonnie
> >
> > The Samba logs on my server say "....connected to resource lonnie as
> > user lonnie....."
> >
> > This seemed to be normal as I seem to remember logging in at one time
> > long ago.
> >
> > The strange thing is that I just tried:
> >
> > C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\luke
> >
> > This actually connected and mapped a network drive to this account wich
> > belongs to another one of our developers and the Samba logs say
> > "....connected to resource luke as user lonnie....."
> >
> > Based upon my understanding I should NOT be able to map into someone
> > elses home directory, right?
> >
> > How can I fix this?
> 
> Set permissions on users directories so that only the user has access. This is 
> a file system permissions issue.

No, the common way of fixing this is to add :

valid users = %S

into the [homes] share definition. We've been advising that for years.

Jeremy.