Re: Samba: Could not get smbpasswd to work. Problem?

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:09 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:30 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Folks,

Trying to get my Samba server running on FC5, but cannot seem
to be able to get shares working right. I noticed that I had
no entries in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file so I tried to add
my users via smbpasswd <user> and provided the passwords but
smbpasswd failed to complete. Here is the results:

[root@mysystem samba]# smbpasswd aUser
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to find entry for user aUser.
Failed to modify password entry for user aUser

I checked to make sure that this user had an account
in the /etc/password file and yes, they do so I am not
sure why smbpasswd is not accepting it.

Anyone have problems with this?
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are you sure that samba would use /etc/samba/smbpasswd as backend?

Apparently, when I used the -a option, the user entries are
added to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. I checked. I now have my users
added but now the next step is to get samba configuration right
so that group-defined users have samba share access rights only.

I am now fiddling with the shares. Trying to grant browser rights
only to members of the samba group I created. But seems there is
only a binary value allowed for the browseable: Yes or No.

Any idea how to set a share as browseable but only for allowed users?

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if you read the man pages...browseable is only a browsing quality.
Whether it's visible or not in a Network browser window. It has no
relationship to whether a user or group has privileges to see the files
or folders inside...only the presence of the share itself.

Thus, browsing rights is only a binary on/off browseable yes/no.

There are write users/read users, etc. There are the underlying 'posix'
file/group ownership bits that have impact as well.

You really need to read the man pages or the 'howto' at

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs

Craig

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