LinuxQuestions.org - Can browse samba shares in Nautilus as root, but not as normal user

I've figured it out! It turns out that after I had installed winbind, started winbindd (setting it to start with the computer, using sysv-rc-conf, which I download using apt-get), and modified my smb.conf and nsswitch.conf, just restarting the samba service wasn't enough; I had to reboot too. Now I can browse properly with my non-root user. Below are my working configuration files.

/etc/nsswitch.conf

Code:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf

#

# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.

# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:

# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.



passwd:        compat

group:          compat

shadow:        compat



hosts:          files lmhosts wins dns winbind

networks:      files



protocols:      db files

services:      db files

ethers:        db files

rpc:            db files



netgroup:      nis

/etc/samba/smb.conf

Code:

#

# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.

#

#

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the

# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed

# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which 

# are not shown in this example

#

# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) 

# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #

# for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you

# may wish to enable

#

# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command

# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic 

# errors. 

#



#======================= Global Settings =======================



[global]



## Browsing/Identification ###



# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of

  workgroup = WORKGROUP



# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

  server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)



# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:

# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server

;  wins support = no



# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client

# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both

;  wins server = w.x.y.z

;  wins server = 192.168.1.1



# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.

  dns proxy = no



# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names

# to IP addresses

  name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host



#### Networking ####



# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to

# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;

# interface names are normally preferred

;  interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0



# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the

# 'interfaces' option above to use this.

# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is

# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself.  However, this

# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.

;  bind interfaces only = true







#### Debugging/Accounting ####



# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine

# that connects

  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m



# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).

  max log size = 1000



# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following

# parameter to 'yes'.

;  syslog only = no



# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything

# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log

# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.

  syslog = 0



# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace

  panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d





####### Authentication #######



# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account

# in this server for every user accessing the server. See

# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html

# in the samba-doc package for details.

;  security = user

security = share



# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on

# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.

#  encrypt passwords = true



# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what

# password database type you are using.  

  passdb backend = tdbsam



#  obey pam restrictions = yes



;  guest account = nobody

  invalid users = root



# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix

# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the

# passdb is changed.

;  unix password sync = no



# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following

# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for

# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).

  passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

  passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .



# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes

# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in

# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.

;  pam password change = no



########## Domains ###########



# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC

# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must

# change the 'domain master' setting to no

#

;  domain logons = yes

#

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory

# from the client point of view)

# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the

# samba server (see below)

;  logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U

# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory

;  logon path = \\%N\%U\profile



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client

# point of view)

;  logon drive = H:

;  logon home = \\%N\%U



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored

# in the [netlogon] share

# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention

;  logon script = logon.cmd



# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR

# RPC pipe.  The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix

# password; please adapt to your needs

; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u



########## Printing ##########



# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather

# than setting them up individually then you'll need this

;  load printers = yes



# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the

# printcap file

;  printing = bsd

;  printcap name = /etc/printcap



# CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the

# cupsys-client package.

;  printing = cups

;  printcap name = cups



# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can

# also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer

# properties

;  printer admin = @lpadmin





############ Misc ############



# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration

# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name

# of the machine that is connecting

;  include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m



# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.

# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/speed.html

# for details

# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:

#        SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

  socket options = TCP_NODELAY



# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package

# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are

# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.

;  message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &



# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this

# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you

# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.

;  domain master = auto

domain master = no

local master = no

preferred master = no

os level = 0



# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges

# for something else.)

;  idmap uid = 10000-20000

;  idmap gid = 10000-20000

;  template shell = /bin/bash



#======================= Share Definitions =======================



# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)

# to enable the default home directory shares.  This will share each

# user's home directory as \\server\username

;[homes]

;  comment = Home Directories

;  browseable = yes

;  guest ok = yes

;  read only = yes

;  create mask = 0555

;  public = yes



[danehome]

  comment = Dane's home directory

  path = /home/dane

  browseable = yes

  guest ok = yes



# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone

# with access to the samba server.  Un-comment the following parameter

# to make sure that only "username" can connect to \\server\username

;  valid users = %S



# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next

# parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them.

;  writable = no



# File creation mask is set to 0600 for security reasons. If you want to

# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0664.

;  create mask = 0600



# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to

# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.

;  directory mask = 0700



# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

;[netlogon]

;  comment = Network Logon Service

;  path = /home/samba/netlogon

;  guest ok = yes

;  writable = no

;  share modes = no



# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store

# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

# The path below should be writable by all users so that their

# profile directory may be created the first time they log on

;[profiles]

;  comment = Users profiles

;  path = /home/samba/profiles

;  guest ok = no

;  browseable = no

;  create mask = 0600

;  directory mask = 0700



[printers]

  comment = All Printers

  browseable = no

  path = /tmp

  printable = yes

  public = no

  writable = no

  create mode = 0700



# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable

# printer drivers

[print$]

  comment = Printer Drivers

  path = /var/lib/samba/printers

  browseable = yes

  read only = yes

  guest ok = no

# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.

# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are

# members of.

;  write list = root, @ntadmin



# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.

;[cdrom]

;  comment = Samba server's CD-ROM

;  writable = no

;  locking = no

;  path = /cdrom

;  public = yes



# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the

#        cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain

#        an entry like this:

#

#      /dev/scd0  /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user  0 0

#

# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the

#

# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD

#        is mounted on /cdrom

#

;  preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom

;  postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom

I hope this helps somebody who has the same problem.

--Dane