samba - Apr 1998 - passwords and Win95

Is there any way to have an account that let's multiple users from Windows
95 clients log in?  i.e., let's say there are shared folders called foo and
bar.  bar is public.  foo is accessible to user "foobar" with password
"foobar."  Win95 keeps sending over it's username as the person
who logged
in to that computer, or as the computer's machine name... and samba uses
that.  I'd rather if they just typed in "foobar" they'd be in
foobar's
account. Can this be done?

-Yanek.

Yanek,
>Is there any way to have an account that let's multiple users from
Windows
>95 clients log in?  i.e., let's say there are shared folders called foo
and
>bar.  bar is public.  foo is accessible to user "foobar" with
password
>"foobar."  Win95 keeps sending over it's username as the
person who logged
>in to that computer, or as the computer's machine name... and samba uses
>that.  I'd rather if they just typed in "foobar" they'd be
in foobar's
>account. Can this be done?
Establish a group foobar in /etc/group with all the users that shall be allowed
to access the share foobar.

	foobar::<nnn>:andy,bert,charly,...

Establish a user foobar in /etc/passwd with GID of foobar.

Then alter your smb.conf to read something like

[foobar]
   path = /anywhere/foobar
   valid users = foobar, @foobar
   force user = foobar
   force group = foobar
   create mode = 771

Then anyone mentioned in group foobar will be allowed to access that share. Any
file created there will get UID of
foobar and GID of foobar and will be readable/writeable for all that people.

HTH ...

Regards,
        Robert
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