Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:49:49 -0700 (PDT) From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> To: "Scott R." <reverend@sfmidimafia.com>, freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Simple Samba Question(?) Message-ID: <20020925114949.81011.qmail@web40708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D915FE8.3010401@sfmidimafia.com>
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--- "Scott R." <reverend@sfmidimafia.com> wrote: > [I am not currently subscribed to this mailing list, so please 'cc:' > me > in any replies. Thank you.] > > I have a simple home network with one Windows XP machine and one > FreeBSD > 4.6.2-RELEASE machine. I am trying to set up a Samba share on the > FreeBSD machine that the WinXP box can read/write to. I can get it > to > read the share, but I cannot seem to write to it. My config file is > really simple: Sounds like permissions to me. By default, samba accesses files as the user nobody. Add guest account = pcguest to your smb.conf, create a lowly-priveledged pcguest user, and give him rights/ownership of /u1 Alternitivly, set up encrypted passwords and remove guest ok from the share definition, or turn off encrypted passwords in windows. It's actually a toss-up over which system is less secure. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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