On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 01:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > actually, service smb restart isn't truly necessary because samba > > automatically re-reads it's config files on some regular basis (perhaps > > once per minute or so) but it helps speed things along if nothing > > else...and of course, once you have a 'connection' established, even > > changing and restarting smb service isn't going to change things for > > those connections. > > > > You might want to verify that a pointless connection doesn't already > > exist from client to server...'smbstatus' > > > > Craig > > > > > > > # smbstatus > > Samba version 3.0.10-1.fc2 > PID Username Group Machine > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Service pid machine Connected at > ------------------------------------------------------- > tmp 11998 amd586 Fri Mar 17 00:54:27 2006 > > No locked files > > Only thing is, I can't connect to my home directory. MSCLIENT > complains that the syntax isn't correct. Apparently it can > only handle one level of directory... > > JMCCARTY@AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario-1\home\jmccarty ? > Enter password: > The syntax is incorrect. > > So, it doesn't like the multiple levels. > > However, I added a soft link /jmccarty -> /home/jmccarty which > I shared only to my user jmccarty, and it works just fine to > let me access my home directory. ---- a HOME$ share doesn't exist in a 'security = share' context and I would bet that is discussed in the samba documentation and in the man pages of smb.conf - if you think about it...'security = share' is nothing more than a share level access which is Windows networking at it's absolute minimum so if you wished to share your 'home' directory, you would have to explicitly call it a share within smb.conf as it will never work in a [homes] type designation. Craig
