Hello all. I am sure that this is an FAQ but I cannot find a succinct answer anywhere. My question is: What is the correct way to access a Samba share when the Samba server has a private IP adress (eg 192.168.x.y), the (Windows via PPP) client is assigned a relevant private address (eg 192.168.x.z) and the username/password used to login to the client is not known to the server and/or is different from the username/ password used to login to the server. How does the user validation work in this scenario? Does Samba look at the username of the PPP connection or the username used to login to the client Windows PC? My test configuration is a W98 laptop dialing into a Linux box. The Linux box is 192.168.1.2 and it assigns 192.168.1.200 to the laptop PPP client. The username/password used to login to the laptop is aaaaa/bbbbb and the username/ pasword used to initiate the PPP connection is ccccc/ddddd. The laptop can ping, telnet, ftp etc etc to the Linux server but if I try to "find" the Linux box from the laptop, the Samba log on the Linux box reports a password failure for the username aaaaa. The laptop involved is used to access multiple different server systems so it cannot be configured so that aaaaa/bbbbb = ccccc/ddddd for all servers Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies -- =======================================================================Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 041-980 1417 Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 08-8272 8863
>What is the correct way to access a Samba share when the Samba server has a >private IP adress (eg 192.168.x.y), the (Windows via PPP) client isassigned a>relevant private address (eg 192.168.x.z) and the username/password used to >login to the client is not known to the server and/or is different from theusername/>password used to login to the server. >.... Just a hint.... Samba may be configured to listen on certain ifaces... will this have anything to do with that??? I mean, I'm sure it defaults to listen on the eth iface but what about the ppp ones??? Not sure.... maybe I'm completely mistaken.... in that case please correct me guys. Ivan
>: RE: Accessing Samba shares via PPP links>>What is the correct way to access a Samba share when the Samba server has a >>private IP adress (eg 192.168.x.y), the (Windows via PPP) client is assigned a >>relevant private address (eg 192.168.x.z) and the username/password used to >>login to the client is not known to the server and/or is different from the username/ >>password used to login to the server. >...>Just a hint....>Samba may be configured to listen on certain ifaces... will this have anything to >do with that??? I mean, I'm sure it defaults to listen on the eth iface but what >about the ppp ones???>Not sure.... >maybe I'm completely mistaken.... in that case please correct me guys.>IvanIt would appear that there is a lot of interest in this project. This is the second this week I put out feelers a few weeks back on the same subject, but not via this mailing list. Mikkel Ellertson has given me a few pointers. I have got side tracked in the meantime. Can someone more knowledgeable than I set up a group for it. Let me have the info and I will try and put a HOWTO together on the subject. Regards Max Wood