From suse-linux-e  Tue May 11 20:54:20 2004
From: Ain Vagula <ain () riiska ! ee>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:54:20 +0000
To: suse-linux-e
Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1: Has anyone had any luck setting up a Samba server with shares? [SOLVED]
Message-Id: <200405112354.20376.ain () riiska ! ee>
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Pieter Hulshoff:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 21:28, Ain Vagula wrote:
> > Pieter Hulshoff:
> > > If so: please, please, please, please let me have a look at your
> > > configuration files, because what was so easy with 8.2 has not been
> > > successful after trying for almost a week in 9.1 sofar. Any hints would
> > > be welcome at this time.
> >
> > Same here. I have preserved firewall settings, samba settings are almost
> > the same as in 2.8.x, but user from windoze machine simply cannot connect
> > to share. Some problem with password encryption?
>
> Ok, that turned out to be easy... I tried to have the accounts be guest
> browsable (nice, no password on my LAN at home), but totally forgot to see
> if a guest user (falls under the 'other' category in UNIX permissions)
> actually had access to the shared directory path. A directory higher in the
> hierarchy was set to drwx------, so guest could not get into it. I just
> managed to connect to my new SuSE 9.1 Samba server's movie directory from a
> Windows 98 client. :)
>
> Ain, if you're still having trouble, just let me know what you're trying to
> set up, and if the above hints were helpful in making that work. I'll see
> if I can help you get it to work too. :)
>

It was enough to read my own post to solve to problem :)
permissions, permissions....

ain

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