-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that Samba does not offer a per-share > password, even when running under security=share? > > In the original, outdated design of SMB (COREP.TXT) passwords were > assigned to shares. I don't see a mechanism in newer Samba docs that > allows for a per-share password (though there are a lot of docs and I > have been known to lose track of the nose on my face--folks who've met > me face-to-face will find that hard to believe). It looks as though > there's a fudge in place to make username/password pairs work instead. > > I'm curious, only for documentation purposes. If there is no share > password support I think it makes sense. It's just that it's not what > W/9x does. :) Samba always bvalidates a username/password pair. For a share level equivalent service, do something like [share1] username = acct1 force user = acct1 path = /tmp and give out the password to acct1. The force user may not be necessary. I'd have to check the code, but my gut says that it wuold nopt be necessary. jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ISBN 0-672-32269-2 "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE9sBAaIR7qMdg1EfYRAj/aAJ9EXSMep9snCq3ZX1vQxlKWxCFeUwCg4zdr PW6areflaTxX5PoboKkue/0= =Ck38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----