[Samba] Worked examples?

Philip Washington phwashington at comcast.net
Wed Dec 14 21:32:39 GMT 2005


Donald Musser wrote:

>Okay, that worked to allow me to see the files, but now I'm not prompted for
>any login and access to the share is denied when I open the file and try to
>save directly back to the share. The only thing I changed were the
>transposition errors you pointed out. With that same config, is there
>something else I'm missing? Before I made that change I was prompted for a
>password. Or did the password get saved? I guess that's possible, but then
>why can't the owner of the file (which is who I'm logged in under), save
>directly back to the file?
>
>-Myles
>On 12/14/05, Philip Washington <phwashington at comcast.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Donald Musser wrote:
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>>>Alright, here it is...
>>>
>>>[global]
>>>workgroup = swtest
>>>netbios name = nagios-02
>>>printcap name = cups
>>>disable spoolss = Yes
>>>show add printer wizard = No
>>>printing = cups
>>>
>>>[homes]
>>>comment = Home Directories
>>>valid users = %S
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I believe you need a path here.
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>>>read only = No
>>>browseable = No
>>>
>>>[public]
>>>comment = Data
>>>paht = /export1
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>This should be path =
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>>>force user = maryo
>>>force group = users
>>>guest ok = Yes
>>>read only = No
>>>
>>>[printers]
>>>comment = All Printers
>>>path /var/spool/samba
>>>printer admin - root, maryo
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>This should be printer admin =
>>run 'testparm' from your prompt and see if anything  else shows up
>>
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>>>create mask = 0600
>>>guest ok = Yes
>>>printable = Yes
>>>use client driver = Yes
>>>browseable = No
>>>
>>>#EOF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't know whether you did this or not, but you might try running
>>testparm > outputtestparm.txt
>>That way if some of these errors are typos from translation to email you
>>can avoid this by just copying or editing the file outputtestparm.txt.
>>
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>>>[root at nagios-02 /]# ls -al export1
>>>total 24
>>>drwxr-x---   2 maryo users 4096 Dec 12 13:49 .
>>>drwxr-xr-x  25 root  root  4096 Dec 13 14:03 ..
>>>-rw-r--r--   1 root  root   644 Dec 12 13:49 hi
>>>
>>>      
>>>
   run 'chown -R maryo.users export1' in the directory below this, that 
might be part of your problem.

>>>Notice anything? Anymore info you need? I've been logging in mainly as
>>>      
>>>
>>maryo
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>>>in this setup.
>>>
>>>-Myles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 12/13/05, Mark Sarria <mes4294 at lausd.k12.ca.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Post your Config file, let's take a look!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: samba-bounces+mes4294=lausd.k12.ca.us at lists.samba.org
>>>>[mailto:samba-bounces+mes4294=lausd.k12.ca.us at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
>>>>Of
>>>>Donald Musser
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:46 AM
>>>>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>>>Subject: [Samba] Worked examples?
>>>>
>>>>I've been experimenting with Samba a bit. I won't claim to know a whole
>>>>lot
>>>>about it, because I don't, and I'm even somewhat of a newbie when it
>>>>        
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>>comes
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>>>>to Linux/UNIX. But I've been working with the worked examples that the
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>>HOW
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>>>>TO docs describe on the website, configuring my smb.conf file as is
>>>>stated.
>>>>I'm running Samba 3.0.14a-2 on Fedora Core 4, and I'm running into a bit
>>>>of
>>>>a problem. When I work with the example of a simple Anonymous Read-Only
>>>>File
>>>>Server, I am able to access those files from my WinXP system just fine.
>>>>However, when I get to the example of a Secure Office Server, I am able
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>>to
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>>>>log in using any of the users I specified in my config, but none of the
>>>>users are able to view any files I've placed in that share -- not even
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>>the
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>>>>owner of the files. This is the case when I try to access the files from
>>>>both my WinXP system and locally by logging into the Samba server from
>>>>command line. I can post my smb.conf file if needed, but I was wondering
>>>>if
>>>>there's something common that I'm missing...
>>>>
>>>>TIA,
>>>>
>>>>~Myles
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