samba - Jan 2013 - Client access multiple shares with different usernames...

List,

I have a FreeBSD box with samba and two shares '\\bsd\foo' and
'\\bsd\bar'.
Each require a different password. (Different system user accounts and
different corresponding samba account.) They both work. The problem is that
from Windows 7 and windowsXP clients I can connect to '\\bsd\foo', but
then I
can never connect to '\\bsd\bar' until I restart. Thereafter I can never
connect to '\\bsd\foo' until I restart... and so on.

Is there a way I can connect to multiple shares from the same client, using
different authentication for each share? For example, if I could put a username
in a UNC path that would solve everything:

    \\foo at hostname\some\resource

Any suggestions or links to examples would be great.

Thanks!
-Modulok-


Below is my test smb.conf file::

    # Begin smb.conf
    [global]
        smb ports = 139
        workgroup = MShome
        os level = 255
        domain master = yes
        local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        wins support = yes
        name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts
        server string = bsd
        netbios name = bsd
        hosts allow = 192.168.1.
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        log file = /var/log/samba.log
        max log size = 1000
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=17520
SO_SNDBUF=17520 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
        interfaces = 192.168.1.3/24
        guest account = public
        security = user
        map to guest = Bad User
        encrypt passwords = yes
        invalid users = root toor
        browseable = yes

        max disk size = 100000
            # Makes samba lie to stupid programs like photoshop, reporting
            # this (in megabytes) as the maximum volume size. This does
            # not limit the actual size of the volume, only the reported
            # size.

        create mask =  0644
        directory mask = 0755
        client NTLMv2 auth = yes

        null passwords = no
            # Allow or disallow client access to accounts that have
            # null passwords.

        unix extensions = no
            # Keep this off if you enable wide links. This is only used by
            # unix clients and is of no use to windows clients.

        wide links = yes
        follow symlinks = yes


    [foo]
        path  = /home/%S
        writable = yes
        guest ok = no
        hide dot files = yes


    [bar]
        path  = /home/%S
        writable = yes
        guest ok = no
        hide dot files = yes

    # End smb.conf

Am 03.01.2013 21:12, schrieb Modulok:
> List,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD box with samba and two shares '\\bsd\foo' and
'\\bsd\bar'.
> Each require a different password. (Different system user accounts and
> different corresponding samba account.) They both work. The problem is that
> from Windows 7 and windowsXP clients I can connect to '\\bsd\foo',
but then I
> can never connect to '\\bsd\bar' until I restart. Thereafter I can
never
> connect to '\\bsd\foo' until I restart... and so on.
> 
> Is there a way I can connect to multiple shares from the same client, using
> different authentication for each share? For example, if I could put a
username
> in a UNC path that would solve everything:
> 
This is a limitation in Windows clients and not really a Samba issue.
(People accessing shares on Windows servers face the same problem.)
Basically the client can only handle one user name per server name.
AFAIK there is no elegant workaround for this.

One solution is to access one share via the NetBIOS name and the other
via a DNS name (e.g. using \\bsd.some.domain\bar) or even the IP
address.

Another solution would be adding NetBIOS aliases to the server and
accessing different shares with different authentication via
different aliases.

Kind regards
Wolfgang Ratzka