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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well it's been a couple of weeks since my previous
post, and thanks for the replies, I've just been busy with work and
study.<BR>And family issues. When was the last time you have a family member
come out of cancer surgery with no anesthaesia? Here in Perth! I can't even
begin to describe.... Bloody sick!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also wanted to make sure I exhausted all solutions
before reposting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DANIEL AXTENS,<BR>I checked /etc/fstab, entries for
the 2 other drives were not there.<BR>However, since I added them, Fedora tells
me in its startup routine that the devices "hdc1" & "hdd1" are already
mounted under "/mnt/dir" & "/mnt/backups" respectively.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I posted the file to my website here:<BR><A
href="http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~drysdale/samba/fstab">http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~drysdale/samba/fstab</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The system-config-samba utility is the one I had
used to add the user "home", the only other user besides "root". I wanted the
other Windows users to use the user "home", but have now gone with creating a
Linux user for each Windows user. 7 users in total. I thought that be more
straighforward.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The "/mnt/dir" and "/mnt/backups" directories have
read/write/execute priviledges for both the owner and group. By the way, the
owner is the "home" user which exists only on Fedora. This home user and the
other 7 users are under the same group "family".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>MIKE HOLLAND,<BR>I removed "nobody" from the equation, I though nobody
literally meant nobody, as in available-to-everyone access. Nobody still exists,
he just doesn't own anything.</DIV>
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<DIV>The permissions for the 2 directories/drives that I want to share are 775.
How did you mean to set 644 for files? I set the permissions at 775 on the top
level directories.<BR>Owner: read/write/execute<BR>Group:
read/write/execute<BR>Others: read/execute</DIV>
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<DIV>And windows users map to linux users now. As in "Jessie" on windows =
"jessie" on linux. Or at least I am trying to get them to....</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>CRAIG RINGER,<BR>Thanks for the lengthy reply :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>First off, I have posted my "/etc/samba/smb.conf" and "/etc/samba/smbusers"
to my website: <A
href="http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~drysdale/samba/">http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~drysdale/samba/</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now, all users have been created using Fedora's "Users and Groups"
GUI.</DIV>
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<DIV>When browsing Network Neighborhood in windows, the icon for the server
computer appears, I double click and am presented with a login box. No
username/password combo gets through. There is no message, the login box just
reappears after each attempt.</DIV>
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<DIV>After reading what you wrote about Windows encrypting passwords differently
to Unix systems, I then used "smbpasswd" to set the passwords for the users. Is
this supposed to resolve the incompatibility. Anyway, no success.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>CAMERON PATRICK,<BR>The directory permissions are set as described
above in the response for Mike Holland. Is this what you meant?<BR>Also, I am
not 100% on "sticky bits" and what they do/what they are for.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IN SUMMARY.........<BR>I have simply set the two master directories
which I want to share to allow full access to the owner and the user group of
"family" which all other 7 windows users are under.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>However, I can't even see what shares are listed from windows as no user
can log in.</DIV>
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<DIV>When I had Samba set to "share", then I was able to se the listed shares,
but could not access them - insufficient priviledges. For everything set to
"share"? That is what led me to believe that it was not Samba that needed
configuring.</DIV>
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<DIV>When it WAS share access, shares that were located on the system drive
could be accessed, but not shares on the other 2 drives. But if the permissions
on /mnt/***whatever***..... are set to allow any access, why is this so?</DIV>
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<DIV>"James Drysdale" <<A
href="mailto:drysdale@swiftdsl.com.au">drysdale@swiftdsl.com.au</A>> wrote
in message <A
href="news:20050827032403.9156.99706@shameless.plug.org.au">news:20050827032403.9156.99706@shameless.plug.org.au</A>...</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well this is my first post to the PLUG forums so
please excuse me as I only know the one person who invited me to the August
seminar in Technology Park.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, I am running Fedora Core 4 as a home
Internet gateway/fileserver.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Previously I ran Mandrake 10.0 with no prolem,
however I wanted to widen my scope.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All other machines are running Windows XP Home,
XP Pro, Win98 and they can PING the linux box, it appears in Network
Neighborhood, even the shares appear, however when I try to enter the shares I
am presented with a dialog box stating that I do not have sufficient
priviledges.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the strange thing
though........</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have three HDDs installed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shares which refer to directories on the system
drive can be viewed from Windows.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, the shares on the other two drives
cannot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This sounds like a file pemissions problem.....
so I set all read/write permissions on the extra drives to allow
"nobody". (basically no secuiry at all), yet Windows still cannot access the
shares.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the SAMBA 3 HANDBOOK at home, I don't
think SAMBA is the problem.......</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But any help will be great.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of these shares is the collective BACKUP
DRIVE for all the Windows machines.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No backups can be made or accessed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James.</FONT></DIV>
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