The most common use case for the '-smb' option may be '-smb $HOME'.
There is a problem with this case:
Windows attempts to connect as user nobody. Smbd allows the connection
-- unfortunately, it also maps the nobody accesses to the host's
nobody account, so all write accesses fail.
How are
Which smbd are you using? The one on debian sarge wants to have write access
to some /var/run and /var/lib directories to coordinate locking. Because
it gets run as a regular user, (and is not suid root), it winds up
spitting out an error to the logfile and dying. It took me a while to
figure this
Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
Which smbd are you using? The one on debian sarge wants to have write access
to some /var/run and /var/lib directories to coordinate locking. Because
it gets run as a regular user, (and is not suid root), it winds up
spitting out an error to the logfile and dying. It
