[Samba] Samba Registry Configuration- Cannot open smbconf

[mallapadi niranjan]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Marcel Ritter
<Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> mallapadi niranjan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you seem to be right,  If i grant  "SeDiskOperatorPrivilege" rights it
>> works,  But i found that if i do not open any share from the samba
>> server and open regedit only and access the Samba registry it doesn't
>> work,
>>
>> But if i open the samba share and then open regedit and access the
>> samba registry i am able open smbconf key
>>
> Exactly the same here - I asked our windows guy about it, but
> he couldn't explain this behaviour either.

It would be helpful if samba developers can comment something on this,
 I assume that when a share is opened some user credentials are
getting stored which are required for certain operations.  this
credentials may be is accessed when accessing smbconf key.

>> Thanks
>> Niranjan
>>
> Bye,
>    Marcel
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Marcel Ritter
>> <Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>>
>>> mallapadi niranjan schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am using samba-3.3.4 on RHEL5.3, my smb.conf is as below
>>>>
>>>> [global]
>>>> netbios name = nirvana
>>>> workgroup = samba
>>>> registry shares = yes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> after which i added a share using net conf command as follows
>>>>
>>>> $/usr/local/samba-3.3.4/bin/net conf addshare test /tmp writeable=y
>>>>
>>>>  net conf list
>>>> [test]
>>>>       path = /tmp
>>>>       guest ok = no
>>>>       read only = no
>>>>
>>>> >From a Windows XP system When i connect to "nirvana' registry , i get
>>>> access to samba registry but When i access the
>>>> 192.168.122.153\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Samba\smbconf  I get error  "Cannot open
>>>> smbconf: Error while opening key"
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas, how i can access the subkey ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I had a similar problem - if I recall it correctly the account used
>>> to connect via regedit.exe needs to have special privileges in order
>>> do change (and read?) the config:
>>>
>>> Just try this:
>>> net rpc grant rights <username> SeDiskOperatorPrivilege
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Niranjan
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Bye,
>>>    Marcel
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dipl.-Inf. Marcel Ritter
>>> ----
>>> Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>