[Samba] Problems mixing public / private shares on windows

[Mike Gallamore]

In my experience you are correct. Windows seems to treat  
authentication as a per server bases. Once you've logged in as one  
user it will try to use that users credentials for the next share from  
that server. I haven't figured out a workaround but it would be great  
if someone knows one. Sometimes Windows doesn't even show that you are  
connected to a share and the client has to be rebooted before you'll  
get the login prompt again to pick a different login name from what  
I've seen. Definitely not ideal behavior.
On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Michal Sawicz wrote:

> Hi guys, I'm trying to have some shares available for everyone and  
> some
> other only available to authenticated users, here's an excerpt from my
> config file:
>
>> [global]
>>   workgroup = WORKGROUP
>>   server string = Server
>>   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>   max log size = 50
>>   guest account = nobody
>>   map to guest = bad user
>>   security = user
>>   encrypt passwords = yes
>>   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>   local master = no
>>   domain master = no
>>   preferred master = no
>>   dns proxy = no
>>   dos charset = 852
>>   unix charset = UTF-8
>>
>> [mnt]
>> 	path = /mnt/%U
>> 	public = no
>> 	write list = %U
>> 	valid users = @group
>
> It's all fine when I use smbclient or nautilus through gvfs - when I  
> try to access anonymous shares,
> it opens without a password prompt, when I try to access the 'mnt'  
> share it asks for a username / password
> and opens the correct /mnt/username dir.
>
> On windows, however, I can't access the authenticated share -  
> windows says that 'You might not have access to the share'
> and that 'You can't use different users to access different shares'  
> - maybe that's a problem?
>
> What am I doing wrong? Or is it impossible to do like that?
>
> -- 
> Michal Sawicz <michal at sawicz.net>
>
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