RE: [newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Shirley
To: Mandrake Mailinglist Subject: [newbie] Permissions in a network I got a question regarding file sharing with a network drive and permissions. We have a small network with 5 PCs connected to a server. /home is placed on the server with all the user accounts as well as a shared account

Re: [newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:57:38 -0400, Bill wrote: Yes, you can do this. Make a unix group for these users. As root: groupadd staff Now add users to this group. There may be a GUI way to do this... userdrake is your friend. Miark Want

[newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
I got a question regarding file sharing with a network drive and permissions. We have a small network with 5 PCs connected to a server. /home is placed on the server with all the user accounts as well as a shared account for data storage. The problem is the file sharing... is there a function

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-04 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network Heather, Could you pls post a link to the URL of the tutorial you are using? I want to set up SAMBA myself but find

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-04 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network Remember that the first group seen here as rw- refers to the owner of the file, not to root unless root owns

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-04 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Erylon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network Yes! Create a smbpassword: as root#smbpasswd -a yourusername And, yourusername on your XP machine is the same. Gerald

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-04 Thread FemmeFatale
Thx much Heather Femme Heather Reed wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network Heather, Could you pls post a link to the URL of the tutorial you

[newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Heather Reed
OK - coming thick and fast now! I have Samba running, and can see the linux box from windows. However, I can't access it, as it gives me the message 'your account is not authorised to log in from this station'. I am following a tutorial in whichI have created a public directory that should

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Erylon
as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your/public_directory You must have the same username and password on your XP and your Mandrake accounts encrypt passwords = Yes #in samba.conf Unix_name = SMB_yourusername #in /etc/smbusers You're making really good progress. It took me 3 days to get

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Erylon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your/public_directory OK - my tutorial must have had a typo as it left the 2 out

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread FemmeFatale
Heather, Could you pls post a link to the URL of the tutorial you are using? I want to set up SAMBA myself but find the prospect rather intimadatingSP? Thx, Femme aka Heather too ;P Heather Reed wrote: OK - coming thick and fast now! I have Samba running, and can see the linux box from

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Brian Parish
of course. HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:04, Heather Reed wrote: - Original Message - From: Erylon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:04 pm, Heather Reed wrote: as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your/public_directory OK - my tutorial must have had a typo as it left the 2 out of 2777! You must have the same username and password on your XP and your Mandrake accounts OK :-)) encrypt

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Erylon
On Sunday 03 March 2002 16:04, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Erylon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your/public_directory OK - my tutorial

Re: [newbie] permissions on the network

2002-03-03 Thread Erylon
Yes! Create a smbpassword: as root#smbpasswd -a yourusername And, yourusername on your XP machine is the same. Gerald is 100% right about this. e. I may have did it wrong but I created smb users and then smbpasswd for the user of the windows machine and the linux machines Seems to