[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba

[terry]

I fixed it.  I think I just needed to specify a unix group and add the users
to the group, or at least this is what worked for me.  I created the users
and a new group "staff" and then did "smbpasswd -a username" for each, and
used following stanza in smb.conf

[public]
   comment = Public Stuff
   path = /home/samba
   valid users = roger susan terry
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   write list = @staff

Which creates a publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for
people in the "staff" group

It shows up as \\172.2.1.7\public on the XP machine.

Another thing I did not realize was that the name in brackets dictates the
name of the share, (the way it shows up on the XP machine).  In other words,
it's not  \\172.2.1.7\home\samba   as I was originally trying, but is
\\172.2.1.7\public





On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  I'm having trouble getting an XP machine to authenticate with samba.  See:
> http://pastebin.ca/1571532  (smb.conf)
>  Latest error says "couldn't find service home"  See:
> http://pastebin.ca/1571536
>
> Any clues?
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