I have [homes] in smb.conf setup. I have 3 users with home directories. Only one shows up on my win 98 box, and It doesn't accept a password to access it. I have Unix passwords for all accounts and I believe SMB passwords also (it won't accept new SMB passwords.) I also enabled plain-text passwords in the 98 registry in case that was the problem. If anyone has any feed back on why I only get one user's home directory instead of one for each of the three and why it doesn't accept the password I would appreciate it.

Welcome to LQ.

Samba will hide all home directories that aren't available for that user to access. Can you post smb.conf and your smbpasswd file to verify that user accounts have been added.

Here is the smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = Belkin
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
security = share

[public]
path = /public/one
public = yes
read only = no
printable = no

[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0700

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
create mode =0750


Here is the smbpasswd file

# Samba SMB password file
wayne:502:1AA86EA61ECBD79FE72C57EF50F76A05:354066A2E6295E9194570A2F55B45051:[U ]:LCT-3F75FA7E:
user:500:8B6254F57A505994AAD3B435B51404EE:39AAF8F4748B100EEEE7C3ED9BA4B790:[U ]:LCT-3F75FA9A:
guest:501:8B6254F57A505994AAD3B435B51404EE:39AAF8F4748B100EEEE7C3ED9BA4B790:[U ]:LCT-3F75FAB6:


How should the smbusers file be? I thought it was supposed to update automaically.


# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest


I must have something wrong in these files.

Are you logging into microsoft networks with the same username as you are using for samba?

Another option may be to try resetting the samba passwords - eg:
smbpasswd wayne

I highly recommend to use the SWAT (Samba Web Admistration Tool) to make changes in samba.conf. Anyway, in my humble opinion, you need to configure a share for each home, including in every configuration the path for each home separetely. Once again, download and install swat. Then open your favourite web browser ang go to http://localhost:901/ acces as root and everything becomes easier. It comes (swat) with a fantastic help section.

Personanly I wouldn't as it really screws with your config fiels and I have seen it cause problems with password files.
You shouldn;t need ot do this since the generic "homes" share should do this automatically. Up t you but I suggest you backup your config files first. Same goes if you try webmin.

No I wasn't. A Redhat book I have gave me the impression that It would show all home directories. Now I see that I have to login to windows as that user to access the corresponding directory. That also helped me figure out the password problem; I was already logged into windows as the user for that directory before I started SMB on the linux box.

What I wanted was all the home directories to show at once so I could map them as drives like I was doing with an NFS client on windows. I guess I'll have to make separate paths, I assume using [private] in smb.conf for each one.

I decided to order a samba book. The linux books don't tell much about samba.

Thanks for the help.

Yes - in that case you will need to create a share for each home dir.

Thanks again. I've got allot to learn about samba. I'll probably be posting later about the samba printing problems I'm having, if the book I ordered doesn't help. Printing using smbclient is easy, but the other methods I haven't figured out yet