Our office is running Samba 2.2.x on Red Hat 7.x We have a mixed bag of Win98 and recent W2K clients. The new W2K clients have no trouble connecting to the current shares including a home share: [homes] comment = Home Directory writeable = yes read only = no browseable = no create mode = 0600 directory mode = 0700 hide dot files = yes veto files = /desktop/ veto files = /.*/ inherit permissions = yes The problem is that when running MS Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Outlook etc) the W2K clients can't access their home share. They are given a 'You do not have access to the folder '\\Fileserver\w2kuser\'. See your administrator to access this folder' error message. The users are forced to save to their desktop and manually copy these files across to their home share. This is not an issue on Win98 at all. Any ideas out there? I have searched the lists and can't find an obvious solution. Thanks, Dan
Here is my global section:
# General Section
workgroup = OROURKE
netbios name = FILESERVER
server string = OEL File Server
log level = 3
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
share modes = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = yes
wins proxy = yes
smb passwrd file = /etc/smbpasswd
# Domain Server Section
os level = 65
local master = yes
prefered master = yes
domain master = yes
remote announce = 192.168.0.255/OROURKE
# Performance Section
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
I added security = SHARE but that did not change anything... same problem.
I am not running this as a PDC but I think I added the domain section
thinking ahead.
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G. Noble [mailto:mnoble@rfmagic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:37 AM
> To: dan.tappin@orourke-eng.com
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Issues with home shares and W2K and MS Office
>
>
> I have users on W2K accessing their home without a single problem. Here
> is what my homes looks like:
>
> [home]
> comment = Home Directories
> path = /export/home/%u
> read only = No
> veto files = /.*/
>
> My users then mount the share as the H: drive: H: \\sambaserver\home
>
> \home will always map to the uses home directory that is logged in to
> the PC.
>
> Since you do not show your global config portion, I do not know if that
> is causing a problem, I suggest that you use security=SHARE, and make
> sure that encrypt passwords = Yes.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 08:15, Dan Tappin wrote:
> > Our office is running Samba 2.2.x on Red Hat 7.x
> >
> > We have a mixed bag of Win98 and recent W2K clients. The new
> W2K clients
> > have no trouble connecting to the current shares including a home
share:
> >
> > [homes]
> > comment = Home Directory
> > writeable = yes
> > read only = no
> > browseable = no
> > create mode = 0600
> > directory mode = 0700
> > hide dot files = yes
> > veto files = /desktop/
> > veto files = /.*/
> > inherit permissions = yes
> >
> > The problem is that when running MS Office 2000 (Word, Excel,
> Outlook etc)
> > the W2K clients can't access their home share. They are given
> a 'You do not
> > have access to the folder '\\Fileserver\w2kuser\'. See your
> administrator
> > to access this folder' error message.
> >
> > The users are forced to save to their desktop and manually copy
> these files
> > across to their home share. This is not an issue on Win98 at all.
> >
> > Any ideas out there? I have searched the lists and can't find
> an obvious
> > solution.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
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Ok the attached text is my new smb.conf file with the PDC lines removed.
The home directory issue is still there.
Also on Win98 systems users are prompted for a password when accessing the
home share via Office 2000. If they enter the proper password they are
given the contents of the home share and they have the applicable
permissions. W2K users still have no access.
I have a new issue now.
We also have a 'secretarial' share which should be read-only for all
users
except for those in the 'secretarial' or 'admin' group. W2K
'secretarial'
users have read-write access but the same user logged on a Win98 system only
has read only priv. It's not a Office 2000 thing either... it's via
Windows
Explorer as well. I think I am missing something obvious here.
The '/var/secretarial' directory has 0770 permissions with
server:secretarial ownership.
This hurts my brain.
Dan
[global]
workgroup = OROURKE
netbios name = FILESERVER
server string = OEL File Server
log level = 3
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
share modes = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = yes
wins proxy = yes
smb passwrd file = /etc/smbpasswd
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directory
writeable = yes
read only = no
browseable = no
create mode = 0600
directory mode = 0700
hide dot files = yes
veto files = /desktop/
veto files = /.*/
inherit permissions = yes
...
[secretarial]
comment = Secretarial Directory
path = /var/secretarial
read only = yes
public = yes
write list = @secretarial, @admin
inherit permissions = yes
force group = secretarial
force user = server
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G. Noble [mailto:mnoble@rfmagic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:55 AM
> To: dan.tappin@orourke-eng.com
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Issues with home shares and W2K and MS Office
>
>
> I did not know that this was a PDC, you can't use security=SHARE on a
> PDC (at least I do not think so). I believe for a PDC you need
> security=USER.
> You probably also need domain logons = Yes.
>
> I do not have my system setup as a PDC, I did play with it a bit at home
> but did not go to far as I really did not want it.
>
> Unless you really need it as a PDC, I would suggest first setting it up
> as a standard file server. Once you have that working, you can then
> work on making it a PDC.
>
>
> Mike