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? > > ---- > > 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? > ---- 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
