On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:54 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:38, Craig White wrote: > > here's my issue - that I see OP asking a question and the answer is > > wrong and doesn't even comport to man page - obviously your answer > > didn't comport to man page because you couldn't find the right man page. > > In fact your answer was to tell him to use 'security = user' accompanied > > by an awkward explanation which didn't begin to solve his problem. > > > I have said from the start that my experience was not from the man page you > quoted. Here's my issue - you argue endlessly, but you do not give the > original posters a solution to their problem in language they can understand. ---- I surely did with my original post at 6:15 this morning. I don't mean to be argumentative but when the advice given is uncertain and you don't have the man pages to guide you, it's probably better to qualify the advice. ---- > > once again, you have given confusing if not inaccurate. If the user and > > password and workgroup are the same, a Win98 and a Win2K connection to a > > 'security = user' samba would be handled in the same manner so I fail to > > see what you mean by 'all that has changed' > > > Since I do not use 'security = user' that is irrelevant. ---- you suggested that OP use 'security = user' so that makes it relevant in my mind. ---- > > > One of the differences between 'security = user' and 'security = share' > > is that a Windows client can access different shares with different > > passwords in 'security = share' but not with 'security = user' > > > The point I was making was that the user on a win98 box was often unaware that > he was logging in. IIRC the norm was for the windows login details to be > passed to samba for authentication, without the user necessarily being aware > of it. > > This thread is not helping either of the original posters. Please give them > the simplest instructions you can. ---- I thought I did in my first reply to this thread 1 - clarified 'security = share' as opposed to 'security = shares' 2 - referred to man page which described all the possible uses of user settings for login/permissions control for a 'security = share' setting. Craig
