[ale] Samba Not Quite Right

[James P. Kinney III]

I would suspect that Alice and Chloe are currently logged in with Admin
privs. Downgrade their privs on their machines and see if the "guest"
user changes.

XP is real PIA. 

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:06, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> That didnt' do it.  Right now, the "evil" bit is XP forcing the username you try
> to log onto the share with to be "guest" as opposed to letting the user enter
> his or her own username in.  I can't tell if Samba is forcing that somehow.
> - Jeff 
> > See mods below:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:30, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > > Okay = setting "security = share" instead of "security = user" gets me the
> > > browsability I want and also makes my public read-only share accessible like I
> > > want it.  However, when I go to an XP box and try to connect to the controlled
> > > share, XP pre-fills the username field with "<server_name>/Guest" and won't
> > > allow a change, whereas I want the user to be able to supply his or her own
> > > username.  
> > > 
> > > The definition of the share in question is:
> > > 
> > 
> > security = user
> > > [invoices]
> > >         path=/share/invoices
> > >         public=no
> > >         writable=no
> > admin users = jeff alice chloe
> > >         write list = jeff alice chloe ; these are the 2 names I want to have 
> > r/w 
> > >         read list = jeff alice chloe  ; access to this share
> > > 
> > And add jeff alice and chloe to the /etc/passwd file then add them to
> > samba with smbpasswd. Be sure to use the same password that the
> > currently use else they will be prompted fo it at the start of each
> > access session to the shared space. i.e., close the window will close
> > the session.
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