Dear All,

I have been troubled by this things for long time and i couldn't find the solutions.

Here my problems :

I have 4 pc running windoze 98 and 1 linux redhat, now i want to connect 4 windoze to linux through samba.

I want one of the windoze user can write and read the file and the rest only have the rights to read the file.

I have tried the write list syntak write list = peter but it doesn't seem to be works.

i have try to figure out how my linux will recognise the user that we have add in our linux.

Anybody can help me figure out how to solve this problem ?

You can do that with regular permissions.
chmod -R 755 dir

I have do that but it is become all of my windoze user only can read the file, so no one can write it

So you can't make this one user the user/owner of the directory?

I can but it doesn't work, it is seem that the samba doesn't know who is the user that can modified or not.

When you connect from windoze, samba will treat all of the user as read only users.

i have thinking, can we make samba prompt a username and passwd when the windoze user tried to access that directory, so when the windoze user give the user name and passwd, samba will autheticated it whther this user have the rights to change the content of the directory or not, do you have any idea how to do that ? or maybe other solutions will be help too ?

If you set security=user in the smb.conf file then it should prompt you for a username and password, and then you can set permissions after you add the users to samba with smbpasswd -a.

If this works then you can mess with permissions and the different directives like valid users and create mask.

yea, i also have tried it and it is prompt a passwd when we try to access that folder but i don't know what is the passwd that should given becoz i had given all of the paswd i know and it still rejected.

Well then you are going to have to check your /var/log/log.smb and see what is going on with those users. You probably have a UID mismatch or something.

do you any other solution instead of using samba to share the directory which only browseable by 4 users and only one of the 4 user had the read write rights?

Have you set local accounts for your users on the Linux machine?

Yes i have create it

Have you set local accounts for your users on the Linux machine?
useradd -p [password] [username]

and also your Samba accounts after setting local accounts?
smbpasswd -a [username]

Samba will prompt for:
[passwd]
[passwd confirm]

yea i also have do that, but the result still the same. no passwd is match.
do you ever used samba to perform this kind of missions

Check to make sure that the UID in the /etc/passwd file and the UID in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file are the same.

Yes, setting up directories with group permissions will accomplish what you want it to. The problem you are having if I understand you correctly is getting authenticated on the machine. If you are getting a password prompt when you try to access the Samba shares than the problem has to be with the /etc/passwd or smbpasswd file. It should not let you create a Samba account without there being a match on the local machine first.

I have had problems in the past where I set the local account by useradd -p. Try doing passwd [user] and reset locally the do the same on samba by smbpasswd [user]. That should do the trick