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

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks All,

That is one more problem done from my list.

We are slowly getting there.

Cheers,
Lonnie

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:56:14PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:
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>>On Monday 22 August 2005 14:50, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
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>>>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.
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>No, the common way of fixing this is to add :
>
>valid users = %S
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>into the [homes] share definition. We've been advising that for years.
>
>Jeremy.
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