[Samba] Problems mixing public / private shares on windows

[Dennis McLeod]

Connect to the netbios name for one share.
Connect to the ip address for the other share.
This will allow different credentials.
Don't know if you need more than two....  

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> From: samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com at lists.samba.org] 
> On Behalf Of Mike Gallamore
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:12 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems mixing public / private shares 
> on windows
> 
> 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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