I need to connect to a FreeNAS 11 exported Windows share as a different user than my Linux user. My Linux user is Michael, the share owner is Andy. Nautilus doesn't seem to allow connecting to a cifs share as a different user than the login user. Is there a simple workaround for this problem? Every attempt to connect to a share by nautilus or even Windows 10 for that matter should require a username, workgroup name, and password. I want to explicitly force logging in to connect to a share. I want to block anonymous and other users who don't own a share from even seeing that share let alone copying the contents.
The FreeNAS documentation suggests that not checking browseable offers very little security. If you aren't Andy, you shouldn't be able to read let alone see Andy_Backup. Maybe implementing that isn't possible. Someone else's backup is none of my business where restoring it on my computer is potentially illegal as well as a privacy issue. Note that I don't know what active directory is and I'm doing NT4 on the FreeNAS 11 server. There isn't a domain controller nor is the FreeNAS box a domain master. The passwords and usernames are easily going to be different on the Windows or Linux box than the FreeNAS 11 box. Nautilus is problematic because it doesn't allow connecting to a share as someone else or with a different password. I don't want a central authentication scheme for Windows where failure of the authentication server translates to not being able to use your own laptop or desktop machine. For this reason and because of my limited knowledge, I'm leery of implementing openldap or any other central authentication scheme. If only someone would implement a Windows, Linux, and Mac OS-X compatible alternative to CIFS that is secure. Seems like Novell Netware was better back in the day, not sure about now with Novell abandoning IPX/SPX in favor of TCP/IP. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
