Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:38:54 +0100 From: "Joey Garcia" <gummibear@nettaxi.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Samba 2.0.7 homes share problem with NT 4.0 w/ serv pack 6 (follow up) Message-ID: <MPBBIEGNHCKJGNKPHFAPKEHHCFAA.gummibear@nettaxi.com>
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For those of that took interest in my first posting of this question, I'd like to let you know that I (thanks to Mike Fedyk from the Samba list) have found the answer to my particular problem with Samba. Those of you with Samba experience already know about the [homes] share and what it does exactly. Well, say your logged into an NT4 box as administrator and you're trying to access your administrator share on the FreeBSD box (assuming you have an administrator home directory and all the entries to the password lists are in place) it will not work. The reason is that share names cannot be longer than 12 characters. Administrator is a 13 character share name, therefore it will not work. What I ended up doing is creating a user map. I had to basically rename administrator to ntadmin on the FreeBSD box so that the share name can be a shorter name. Then with the username map = filename directive in the smb.conf I created a file name that mapped my unix user name to my windows user name. I'll attach my smb.conf file at the end of this message. Now it works just fine. Sure I see my home directory share as ntadmin now, but I can deal with that. At least now the [homes] share works the way it's meant to work. Thanks to those of you that helped me with this problem. I'm sure you also overlooked the character length of the share such as I did. It seems as though the character length limitation isn't stated in the Samba documentation so I guess it's not entirely our faults. :) But then again, I bet an NT admin would have known of the limitation but that's another story. Thanks for the help! Joey # smb.conf file # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MIS netbios name = FREEBSD server string = Samba Server interfaces = xl0 encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 os level = 33 local master = No dns proxy = No username map = /usr/local/etc/username.map [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp writeable = Yes guest ok = Yes # usermap.map file # unix user = windows user ntadmin = administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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