[Samba] Re: samba: offer public share to Windows 98 and writable share to Windows XP

[Zhang Weiwu]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:57 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Dear List. My requirement is to set up a samba share named "music"
> that: 
>      I. it's read-only accessible from both Windows 98 and Windows
>         2000/XP not requiring password; 
>     II. it's write-accessible from Windows XP protected by a password.

In my last email I forgot to mention my "uname -a" and my smb.conf

[global]
  server string = File Server Sappho %v
  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
  map to guest = nobody
  hosts allow = 218.193.55.
  security = share
  encrypt passwords = no
  bind interfaces only = 218.193.55.205
  dos charset = 936
  unix charset = UTF-8

[music]
   comment = /var/music
   path = /var/music
   guest ok = yes
   read only = no

Later I am aware that Windows NT (including XP) probably doesn't work
with "encrypt passwords = no" so I removed that line, the result is,
Windows XP user can always map the share as user "music" but after
mounted the user still don't have permission to write to the share.
Sambe log shows the user is still "nobody" but not "music".

        [2007/04/11 02:15:59, 1]
        smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(693)
          218.193.55.233 (218.193.55.233) connect to service music initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 15327)

my system information:
sappho ~ # equery which samba
/usr/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.24.ebuild
sappho ~ # uname -a
Linux sappho.realss.com 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 #23 Mon Apr 9 23:27:21 HKT 2007 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) GNU/Linux

My latest smb.conf:

sappho ~ # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
  server string = File Server Sappho %v
  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
  map to guest = nobody
  hosts allow = 218.193.55.
  security = share
  bind interfaces only = 218.193.55.205
  dos charset = 936
  unix charset = UTF-8

[music]
   comment = /var/music
   path = /var/music
   guest ok = yes
   read only = no