samba - Apr 1998 - SAMBA digest 1648

>>"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
So I'd still have to know in advance which users I want to allow (andy,
bert, charly...)?  I think I tried force user at one point to try and
ignore the username that win95 sent over, but samba seemed to autheticate
based on their username anyway.

-Yanek.

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Yanek Korff wrote:
> >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
> So I'd still have to know in advance which users I want to allow (andy,
> bert, charly...)?  I think I tried force user at one point to try and
> ignore the username that win95 sent over, but samba seemed to autheticate
> based on their username anyway.
"Force user" only specifies the uid of smbd when accessing that share,
and
hence owner of files and uid used for permission checking. If you have
"security = user" samba will of course authenticate based on username
sent
by win95.

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