samba - Sep 1997 - Forced User option

Hi

I have been trying this very useful option out on one of our win95 PC's. 
The head of dept (username hod) also wants to be able to access his own
account (martin).  He logs on as hod and mounts sharename martin as
drive G.  I put the "force user = martin" in the list associated with
this sharename and HUP'd the smb daemon. Although he can access drive G,
files are still being created as hod on drive G.

I thought the force user option would create files on drive G owned by
martin.  Am I mis-reading the idea behind this parameter ?

Regards
Steve Law
-- 
Computing Officer 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Edinburgh University.
Phone: 0131 650 5037 , Email: steve@maths.ed.ac.uk
Home Page: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~steve

I think you'll have to disconnect and then reconnect. Kill -HUP doesn't
do
what you think it does to smbd.

                                [Darrin]

 "I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious."
				- A. Einstein

Darrin M. Gorski, Research Computer Systems Network Support
Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company
Internet: dgorski@ford.com | Tel/Fax: +1 (313) 248-3753

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Steven Law wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been trying this very useful option out on one of our win95
PC's.
> The head of dept (username hod) also wants to be able to access his own
> account (martin).  He logs on as hod and mounts sharename martin as
> drive G.  I put the "force user = martin" in the list associated
with
> this sharename and HUP'd the smb daemon. Although he can access drive
G,
> files are still being created as hod on drive G.
> 
> I thought the force user option would create files on drive G owned by
> martin.  Am I mis-reading the idea behind this parameter ?
> 
> Regards
> Steve Law
> -- 
> Computing Officer 
> Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Edinburgh University.
> Phone: 0131 650 5037 , Email: steve@maths.ed.ac.uk
> Home Page: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~steve
>