Samba is going to kill me

tkedwards · 01-04-2006, 11:48 PM

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It worked for a few minutes, but now I can't access that directory from the Mandriva machine. It says I don't have permission.

Is it still accessible from the Windows machine? How are you trying to access it on the Mandriva machine and what user are you logged in as? What permissions are on that directory?

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is it possible to have a home directory shared?

Yes
http://ccfaq.valar.co.uk/modules.php...rticle&sid=159

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If so, would each person's homedir be shared all the time, or just when they log into X?

It would be shared anytime that samba was running, it doesn't matter wether or not the user is logged into the machine doing the sharing.

Snump · 01-05-2006, 11:50 AM

I'm logged on under justin, and I can't access the share from my normal KDE desktop.

Code:

cd samba
[justin@blahblah]$ ls
ls: .: Permission denied

I want everyh account able to access this samba "dump" as I like to call it.

tkedwards · 01-05-2006, 03:47 PM

Code:

find /home/samba -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} \;

Snump · 01-05-2006, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tkedwards

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find /home/samba -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} \;

I just ran that command.
From Windows:

http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/6708/doh1gj.jpg

tkedwards · 01-05-2006, 10:02 PM

On the Linux box can you go into that directory as justin and create/see files? On Windows when you try to enter that share does it prompt for a username and password?

Snump · 01-05-2006, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by tkedwards

On the Linux box can you go into that directory as justin and create/see files? On Windows when you try to enter that share does it prompt for a username and password?

Its those security checks. It worked for a second I left to watch a special on Afghanistan and it made a fool of me.

From Linux.
http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/4...hot27ii.th.jpg

on Windows when I double click, it does not ask for a username and password.

thorn168 · 01-05-2006, 10:48 PM

If you go to the samba website the lastest revision is a bugfix relating to security. Read the changelog to find out if it will help with your problem. If not then continue one with the version that you have.

tkedwards · 01-05-2006, 10:59 PM

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If you go to the samba website the lastest revision is a bugfix relating to security. Read the changelog to find out if it will help with your problem. If not then continue one with the version that you have.

There's no harm in checking but like most distros Mandriva backports all the relevant security fixes into their Samba version 3.whatever_version_it_was_when_the_distro_was_released RPM. So far it looks more like a problem with Mandriva's 'msec' security thingo than Samba anyway.

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Snump: Its those security checks. It worked for a second I left to watch a special on Afghanistan and it made a fool of me.

You can disable them as I described in a previous post and see if that helps. It seems strange that it would break the permissions on that directory - what permissions is it setting it to? Does samba still have group ownership of that directory and files and folders in it after the permissions have gone wrong? The user justin definately is part of that samba group?

Snump · 01-07-2006, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by tkedwards

There's no harm in checking but like most distros Mandriva backports all the relevant security fixes into their Samba version 3.whatever_version_it_was_when_the_distro_was_released RPM. So far it looks more like a problem with Mandriva's 'msec' security thingo than Samba anyway.

You can disable them as I described in a previous post and see if that helps. It seems strange that it would break the permissions on that directory - what permissions is it setting it to? Does samba still have group ownership of that directory and files and folders in it after the permissions have gone wrong? The user justin definately is part of that samba group?

Here are the current permissions on the directory
drwx--x--x 2 nobody samba 4096 Jan 4 23:51 samba/

then I try do get a listing...
[]$ ls
ls: .: Permission denied

tkedwards · 01-08-2006, 02:56 AM

Disable the checking of home directories option as I described before. It definitely looks like that is what's stuffing it up.

steve1972 · 01-09-2006, 09:18 AM

Have you tried ESP Print Pro https://www.easysw.com/printpro/? This comes with a free Windows client driver and makes network set-up a snap.

XavierP · 01-10-2006, 03:19 PM

Why, when the answer already seems to have been given, would the OP pay 49USD or 245USD or 995USD or 2495USD? And this is a printing solution when the OP wants to be able to access directories. And another thing, this is the third answer you have given which refers to ESP as the answer.

Are we on commission or are they just your employer - enquiring minds need to know.

steve1972 · 01-10-2006, 05:26 PM

No, when you like something you try to tell as many people as you can. Being a newbie, I didn't think of Samba as anything but a printing solution, which it isn't. That's why I'm here, to learn. Obviously, I need to pay a little more attention to the whole thread.

tkedwards · 01-10-2006, 11:56 PM

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No, when you like something you try to tell as many people as you can

Yes but when you post promoting a commercial product to a completely unrelated thread it just looks like spam.

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Being a newbie, I didn't think of Samba as anything but a printing solution, which it isn't.

That Print Pro looks more like a CUPS replacement than a Samba replacement anyway.

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Obviously, I need to pay a little more attention to the whole thread.

Try suggesting it in threads where people are having trouble with CUPS, especially if there is no good CUPS driver for their printer.

Snump · 04-02-2006, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tkedwards

There's no harm in checking but like most distros Mandriva backports all the relevant security fixes into their Samba version 3.whatever_version_it_was_when_the_distro_was_released RPM. So far it looks more like a problem with Mandriva's 'msec' security thingo than Samba anyway.

You can disable them as I described in a previous post and see if that helps. It seems strange that it would break the permissions on that directory - what permissions is it setting it to? Does samba still have group ownership of that directory and files and folders in it after the permissions have gone wrong? The user justin definately is part of that samba group?

Hi there, I'm back again. Heh...

how can I disable those security checks? I must be missing somethig because I don't see how to do it in this thread.