[luau] Need a Help for Samba

[Jon Reynolds]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 14:25, humu2nuku2apuaa at eml.cc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problem in Samba in my office.
> I could successfully installed Redhat 9 on one of the computers in my
> office
> 
> We just need to share some files with about 10 windows 2000/XP clients,
> So I did not use any domain controller or winbind (Actually, I do not 
> have any knowledge of these.)  I want to share files with Microsoft File 
> Sharing.
> 
> The problem is like this.
> Windows clients can access Linux server and read and write files 
> perfectly.  However, when a Windows user logout from current machine and 
> other users login that machine, the user can only access to the Linux 
> server and neither can see any other computer in our workgroup nor 
> access to the internet.
> 
> I attached my smb.conf.  Anybody, please give me advice.
> 
> Glen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
> # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
> # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
> # many!) most of which are not shown in this example
> #
> # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> # may wish to enable
> #
> # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
> "testparm"
> # to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors.
> #
> #======================= Global Settings
> =====================================
> [global]
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> load printers = yes
> passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> obey pam restrictions = yes
> username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> encrypt passwords = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> dns proxy = no
> server string = Our Linux Server
> printing = cups
> unix password sync = Yes
> workgroup = workgroup
> os level = 20
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> create mode = 766
> max log size = 0
> pam password change = yes
> directory mode = 777
> 
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> browseable = no
> valid users = %S
> writeable = yes
> create mode = 0664
> directory mode = 0775
> 
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
> printable = yes
> 
> # This one is useful for people to share files
> ;[tmp]
> ;   comment = Temporary file space
> ;   path = /tmp
> ;   read only = no
> ;   public = yes
> 
> # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
> # the "staff" group
> ;[public]
> ;   comment = Public Stuff
> ;   path = /home/samba
> ;   public = yes
> ;   writable = yes
> ;   printable = no
> ;   write list = @staff
> 
> # Other examples.
> #
> # A private printer, usable only by fred. Spool data will be placed in
> fred's
> # home directory. Note that fred must have write access to the spool
> directory,
> # wherever it is.
> ;[fredsprn]
> ;   comment = Fred's Printer
> ;   valid users = fred
> ;   path = /home/fred
> ;   printer = freds_printer
> ;   public = no
> ;   writable = no
> ;   printable = yes
> 
> # A private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write
> # access to the directory.
> ;[fredsdir]
> ;   comment = Fred's Service
> ;   path = /usr/somewhere/private
> ;   valid users = fred
> ;   public = no
> ;   writable = yes
> ;   printable = no
> 
> # a service which has a different directory for each machine that
> connects
> # this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming machines. You
> could
> # also use the %U option to tailor it by user name.
> # The %m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting.
> ;[pchome]
> ;  comment = PC Directories
> ;  path = /usr/local/pc/%m
> ;  public = no
> ;  writable = yes
> 
> # A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that all
> files
> # created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so
> # any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this
> # directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of
> course
> # be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user
> instead.
> ;[public]
> ;   path = /usr/somewhere/else/public
> ;   public = yes
> ;   only guest = yes
> ;   writable = yes
> ;   printable = no
> 
> # The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that
> two
> # users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users.
> In this
> # setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have
> the
> # sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended
> to
> # as many users as required.
> ;[myshare]
> ;   comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
> ;   path = /usr/somewhere/shared
> ;   valid users = mary fred
> ;   public = no
> ;   writable = yes
> ;   printable = no
> ;   create mask = 0765
> 
> [share]
> comment = Shared files
> writeable = yes
> path = /var/share
> 
> 
>  
> -- 
>   
>   humu2nuku2apuaa at eml.cc

Are you saying that nobody can see the shared folder in your network
neighborhood? Im not sure I understand what you are asking but if it is
that you can't see the share on the Linux server then you need to add:

[share]
comment = Shared files
writeable = yes
path = /var/share 
browseable = yes #add this to see the share in Windows

and restart smbd.

HTH,

Jon