On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > >Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba > >share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: > > > >But how do I create the private share? Where do I set the password? Samba doesn't really know the Windows security scheme very well, where there is a password for every service instead of password for every user as it is common in Unix. There are several possibilities: a) set security=user Now every Windows user has to log into the network using a valid unix username and the corresponding password. This is good if the windows people use few and sensible names to log into their machines. This way, their windows login serves as login for the Samba accounts too and they are never asked for a password again. Note that for encrypt passwords = yes (needed for Windows NT SR 3+ and Windows 98) you will need to set the passwords not with the system passwd but with the samba supplied smbpasswd. Both authentcations schemes use incompatible hashes. You will still need a valid Unix user for every Windows user. b) set security=share This tries to map the windows security model (one password per service, independent of the user using the service) to the unix security model, i.e. it will try to validate the given password against a certain (or several) unix password, i.e. you have to set the password with the unix passwd command. (Or with smbasswd if you use encrypt password = yes) Against which one? You may specify it with the USER option, so your share could be created with: security = share [Private] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba/private public = no user = private and you need a unix user "private" whose password is the password of the share. Sounds complicated but it has a lot of advantages. Remember Unix is multiuser. Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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