From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 4:56:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73A537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40708.mail.yahoo.com (web40708.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85E0F43E81 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20020925114949.81011.qmail@web40708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.221.120.128] by web40708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:49:49 PDT Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:49:49 -0700 (PDT) From: robert Backhaus Subject: Re: Simple Samba Question(?) To: "Scott R." , freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3D915FE8.3010401@sfmidimafia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Scott R." 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