samba - Mar 2017 - Samba shared folders and windows 7 permissions dialog.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:21:10 +0300
PF4Public <PF4Public at mail.ru> wrote:
> Given the config provided as requested, any clues?
> 
The smb.conf you posted, shows that Samba is running as a standalone
server. This means that any Samba users will also need to exist on the
windows machine (with the same password). Perhaps this is your problem,
do the Samba users exist on all your windows machines ??

Rowland

Hi, Rowland, thanks for your reply.

Neither of machines have samba users as their local users. This makes Windows
ask for
username and password upon connection, I suppose. However I'm not determined
on what's the
difference between those machines that show users and groups and those which
don't.
Nonetheless some of machines do display samba/ldap users, whilst others do not.
Neither of
them having samba users as local users, as I've already mentioned.

Also I have identified that neither of Windows XP machines show users and groups
in
permissions dialog, even though file and printer accessing has no problems on
them.

Best regards.


26.03.2017 20:44, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:21:10 +0300
> PF4Public <PF4Public at mail.ru> wrote:
>
>> Given the config provided as requested, any clues?
>>
> The smb.conf you posted, shows that Samba is running as a standalone
> server. This means that any Samba users will also need to exist on the
> windows machine (with the same password). Perhaps this is your problem,
> do the Samba users exist on all your windows machines ??
>
> Rowland
>

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:29:19 +0300
PF4Public via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi, Rowland, thanks for your reply.
> 
> Neither of machines have samba users as their local users. This makes
> Windows ask for username and password upon connection, I suppose.
> However I'm not determined on what's the difference between those
> machines that show users and groups and those which don't.
> Nonetheless some of machines do display samba/ldap users, whilst
> others do not. Neither of them having samba users as local users, as
> I've already mentioned.
> 
> Also I have identified that neither of Windows XP machines show users
> and groups in permissions dialog, even though file and printer
> accessing has no problems on them.
> 
If some machines show the users, surely this means that Samba is
working and that the problem lies with the windows machines. Have they
all been updated to the same level ? If not, are the ones that show the
users, not been updated, or do they have an update that the others
don't. Are they the same type i.e. 'pro' or 'home' ?

Rowland