Hi.
So I'm now on the next section of my samba by example book. For the
life of me I just couldn't get it to work. That is until I looked into
what the %S and %U variables actually meant. In the book it says to put
something like the following in your smb.conf:
[files]
comment = Work area files
path = /data/%U
valid users = %S
read only = No
However, from what I understand, %S gets translated to the name of the
share, which in this case would be "files". But of course
"files" isn't
a valid user name on my system. So once I changed things to the
following, things started to work:
[files]
comment = Work area files
path = /data/%U
valid users = %U
read only = No
So am I on the right track here? Is this book in error in telling you
to put a %S as opposed to a %U? And if so, I'd also like to point out
that the online book (which differs a bit from the hard copy I own)
contains a similar error in chapter 2, in the netlogon section of the
smb.conf file. Unless of course the netlogon section is special
somehow, which I suspect it might be. I still haven't looked into that
as of yet. At any rate, I welcome any comments.
Thanks,
Glen
