Subject: Re: Samba Shares & Permissions
From: Matthew Schumacher (schu@schu.net)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 06:59:12 AKDT
In order to effectively use samba you must understand share level
permissions and user level permissions.
Share level is when you put a password on a share, User level is where
you authenticate as a user that is granted or denied access to a share.
Windows 95/98/me all use share level permissions where NT/2000/XP use
user level permissions.
Because windows 98 will pass the currently logged in user/pass as the
network user/pass for authenticating against a share (but only prompt
for the password if the connection fails) I suspect that it is using a
guest account.
The fix is pretty simple, make sure you are logging onto your win98
machine with a user/pass that is valid on your samba server.
Hope that helps,
schu
Robbie Soares wrote:
> I have created a mount point in RH Linux 8.0. I have set the permissions
> for this directory to 777 (rwxrwxrwx) and I created the share in Samba. I
> can write to the directory/mountpoint in Linux but I cannot write to it from
> my Win98 box. How do I get this to work? I can browse it but cannot write
> to it. I can write to my home directory though. This is important since
> most of my client machines are Win98 boxes at this time.
>
> TIA
> Robbie Soares
>
>
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