Help With Samba

[Charles Crawford]

What smbconf is this one quoted at the end of the message?  What version of 
samba?  Mine looks very different.


-- charlie Crawford.
At 05:10 PM 10/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Ok then, I think it still might be a permission error maybe. Something
>to do with the way you have set it up, but I haven't used that package
>much. I hope someone else on here will have some better ideas.
>
>Take care,
>Sina
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
>On Behalf Of Rejean Proulx
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:25 PM
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Subject: Re: Help With Samba
>
>
>That would be quite a flaw because I sit there supplying a password and
>never get in.  If it was that kind of flaw then it wouldn't work at all
>and I suspect it would have been discovered.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
>Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
>MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
>Ham License VA3REJ
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:14 PM
>Subject: RE: Help With Samba
>
>
> > This is only a guess, but it might be a flaw in that Windows XP is
> > trying to access or ask you for a password for every single individual
>
> > file and subdirectory it encounters? I have no clue how you would go
> > about fixing the problem if this were the case, but I just wanted to
> > offer that as a possibility.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Sina
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
> > On Behalf Of Rejean Proulx
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:32 PM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Help With Samba
> >
> >
> > I need help.  I configure Samba and when I access it with Windows XP,
> > the first time it asks me for a user ID.  I set one up so I enter it
> > and it happily lists resources for me which are a few folders and a
> > printer folder. When I select a folder it asks me for a user ID again.
>
> > It doesn't not bring forward the one I enter previously, so I figure
> > that is stupid so I supply it.  after that it asks again, and again,
> > and again, and again, until I quit.
> >
> > Windows is a little different.  It does the same thing except that it
> > tells me that it is unable to match credentials.  It is interesting
> > that I can get as far as the list of folders.
> >
> > If I close it and go back in using Windows XP, it doesn't ask me for
> > the user ID again before listing the folders because if has obviously
> > remembered.  When I select a folder, the loop comes. It asks again,
> > and again, and again.
> >
> > Here is how I have the folders set up.  I tried turning off the
> > encryption but that makes it worse.  When I do that, I can't even get
> > to the list of folders.  Here is how it is set up.
> >
> > [web]
> > comment = Web Files
> > path = /var/www
> > valid users = @users
> > force group = users
> > read only = No
> > create mask = 0770
> > directory mask = 0770
> > guest ok = Yes
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Rejean Proulx
> > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > Ham License VA3REJ
> >
> >
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