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

[Zhang Weiwu]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:40 +0100, Mark Adams wrote:
> Did you set a password for the music user with smbpasswd -a music ?

No. After done what you suggested everything's working the way expected.
I never heard of the command smbpasswd before. I am a new samba user.

> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:17:46PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
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