When I create a samba share that requires a specific user (in share mode) this is how I do it right?

[sharename]
path = /data/shared
comment = some misc share
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 777
directory mode 777
guest ok = no
username=administrator


Then I did (in linux) adduser = administrator and passwd administrator and set a password.

This password matches with my win2k administrator password.

But for some reason it still does not let me access it. If I put guest ok=yes it lets me access it, but it also allows any user to access it.

So what am I missing here?

I tried this in user security mode and same thing. (but used valid users= instead of username=)

Thanks in advance for the help!

You also need to add the samba user...
smbpasswd -a fred and it will prompt you to enter the password for the new samba user, in the example that is fred.

Also, run this to say that the linux user fred is also the samba user fred......
echo fred = fred >> /etc/samba/smbusers

Oh yeah duh I forgot about that! Thanks it worked.

and that last line, I never remember about that one, is it necessary or is it just another way of doing it? since it works without.

Also I had to do the first one twice, since the first time it said it could not open the database, is that normal? (user did not yet exist?)

Oh another question

I created a share that a normal windows user can access, but not the administrator, but yet even the administrator can access it. I'm just playing around to learn more then anything. I'm just wondering is it because linux reconizes the windows administrator as an admin so it automaticly allows it access to anything? Or did I do something wrong somewhere?

Vise versa works though, a share that I assigned to administrator can't be accessed by the normal user.

And another thing, if I set the security level to "user" it won't even let me access the server at all, not even see the shares or anything.

If it works without that last line, leave it that way.
I'm thinking the administrator should be just like root where root has full access, but users don't.
I use the level user method but I have it set up as a domain and the windows boxes have to join the domain.

Suddently, even under share level, everyone can access everything. I have no clue why. I had it working for a while but suddently it stopped working. I VNC to another machine logged in as "auclair" but yet it can access the share that has "username=administrator" and vise versa. I had it working a while ago. Any suggestions?

Try valid users = fred
instead of
username = fred

Great thanks that seems to be working. Only thing is though, instead of the password login box I get "the specified network password is not correct". So is that normal? I assume it is, and it's what I want anyway, but just checking.

So if "valid users" works under share level security, what would be the advantages of using user level security? since it probably comes up to the same thing right?

Sorry, I haven't even used share level so I can't be much help there.

Ok that's fine, as long as everything is working at my end.

Now I need to put a virus on my network to test this out. But I'm going to look into a much safer test alternative. :P

I don't put viruses on my network even if it is linux. There might be some sort of test available but I don't know what off hand.