[Samba] Adding Users to Samba Kill Access

Adam Nielsen adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Tue Feb 7 04:33:37 GMT 2006


> The weird thing is, when I add users to samba, none of my XP Home
> boxes can access the samba shares. I get an "access denied . . .you
> may not have permission" (or something like that) message. As soon as
> I delete all my users from samba, leaving only "nobody", everything
> is peachy. 
> I'd love some help, if anyone has any idea where I might begin
> debugging this.

At a rough guess I suspect that when the user exists, the XP box
connects as that user and then discovers that it has no access to the
underlying filesystem.

Once the users are deleted, Samba treats the user as "nobody" which
does have access to the underlying files.

Cheers,
Adam.


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