On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:01:02AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:22 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > I am trying to connect to several shares on my Fedora 8 system as > > different users from a Windows XP system. > > > > I can't get the "Connect using a different user name" from XP to work > > at all. I can only ever connect as the user I'm logged on to the XP > > system as. I want to connect as a different user to one particular > > share so I don't have to open up the write permissions. > > > > Has anyone else used this and got it to work? > > > > When I try "Connect using a different user name" I enter a valid samba > > user and password but it always fails and asks for the user name and > > password again. Even if I enter the user name that I already am in > > the boxes it fails. Does the user name need some sort of domain > > prefix or something? > ---- > samba by default uses > > security = user > > which by current Windows standards means that a workstation can connect > to this particular server with only 1 identity. Thus if you are already > connected to a share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\foo, you cannot connect to a > different share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\bar > > the 'security = share' concept emulates the Windows 95/98 sharing > concept where each share connection can be a different user but that is > essentially obsolete and should be avoided if possible. > Yes, I suspect that's my problem, what a pain! I seem to remember there's a way to tell samba that I want user X to connect to a particular share as user Y, I guess (if there is such a thing and my memory isn't playing tricks) that's what I'd better do. -- Chris Green
