[Samba] [Nearly Resolved] Samba-3 by Example, Ex 2.4

[Eric Hines]

John,

I'm running Samba 3.0.14a on an FC3 machine, and I'm working from the 
printed 2004 edition of your book (when is your updated version coming 
out?  470 pages of pdf is a lot to print out, and being the throwback that 
I am, I'm much more comfortable with a book than with reading from a 
computer monitor).

I went through the WHATSNEW.txt with this version, but all that said was 
that the %S bug was fixed after 3.0.0.  I notice, though, that in your 
updated example [files] does not have valid users listed in any guise, 
although in many (most?) of the later examples in your updated book, you 
still use %S quite freely in the valid users field.

Thanks

Eric

At 05/07/05 17:48, you wrote:
>Eric,
>
>Are you working from the printed version of the book?
>Are you working from the update that is on the Samba web site?
>
>What version of Samba are you using?
>
>If you are using a version more recent than 3.0.7 I suggest you use the book
>"Samba-3 by Example" from:
>
>         http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf
>
>If you refer to the WHATSNEW.txt file that ships with your version you can 
>see
>what changes were made that may explain why %S does not work.
>
>- John T.
>
>On Saturday 07 May 2005 16:17, Eric Hines wrote:
> > OK, I've got this one working, but only by enumerating the valid users in
> > the "files" share--%S wouldn't work in the valid users field (e.g.,
> > "smbclient //<servername>/files" would simply give an
> > NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error).  This would be OK for a small LAN, but for
> > small enterprises or LANs with 75-100 users, as some on this list have
> > mentioned, that becomes cumbersome (would the field even hold 75 names?).
> >
> > So now my question is this, since it appears I still don't have my users
> > entirely correctly configured: %S, per the smb.conf man page, is the
> > service name (files in my case) and not the user name--but the man page
> > goes on to say that the %S macro attempts to deduce the user name from the
> > service name. How does the macro attempt to do this?  Failing that, are
> > there any ideas about what I'm still doing wrong in configuring my
> > users?  The relevant parts of my smb.conf file follow.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Eric Hines
> >
> > [master]
> >          comment = Master work area
> >          path = /archive
> >          valid users = mfwic
> >          read only = No
> >
> > [files]
> >          comment = The actual backups
> >          path = /archive/%U
> >          valid users = annlee, ehines
> >          read only = No
> >
> >
> > Out of the argument with ourselves comes poetry, out of the argument with
> > others comes politics.
> >          --Yeats
>
>--
>John H Terpstra, CTO
>PrimaStasys Inc.
>Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668
>
>Author:
>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
>Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
>Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
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