[Samba] Permissions issue -- cannot delete a folder/file

simo idra at samba.org
Wed Jan 23 17:33:43 GMT 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:16 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > Gripe session: (Ignore this if you don't have time or don't care)
> >
> > I originally had planned to allow the user to have 2 mount points on the same server using different logins.  Didn't realize that SMB protocol allows only one login to the server at a time.  What is up with that?
> >
> This is a Microsoft feature and it has always been that way. A single
> user can not connect to the same server with more than one set of
> credentials at a time.

This is just a client redirector limitation, you can work around it by
giving your server a netbios alias and connecting to this different name
and a new set of credentials (does not work with kerberos credentials
for obvious reasons, but works with NTLM auth). 

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce at redhat.com>



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