Hello there, While fiddling about with the system,I have noticed the following problem. ----------------------------------------------------- We have some NT machines on our network.It is a 10 user pack.There are 5 current user accounts on each system. fe,se,te,be and of course,administrator. All the 1st year students log in as fe.All the 2nd year students log in as se and so on.... I have made a shortcut to the samba server on the desktop.Let's say a user ( we will call him `A') logs in as se .He sees the shortcut (renamed "home" )on the desktop.When he clicks on it,he is asked for his username and passwd.After it is authorised,he can see **only** his home directory,nothing else. Now,after he logs out,we are again presented with a "press ctrl+alt+delete to login " prompt.Now,assume a second user `B' logs in again as se.Again he will see the "home" shortcut on the desktop.When he clicks on it,he is again asked for the username and passwd. NOW THE BAD PART...... After `B' is authenticated,he should IDEALLY see **only** his home directory.NOTHING ELSE.But this doesn't happen.What happens on my network is,he CAN see the home directory of the previous user `A' who has logged in before him,and then logged out again.And he can browse it too. So a user from the se account (well it is true for all users on the other accounts too) can surf the home directories of the users who had logged in before him.And that is a definite bother :((( ------------------------------------------------------ My guess is that samba is not terminating the session when the user `A' logs out, 'coz when I check the number of active sessions, I can see two ( A's and B's ),even after `A' has logged out,and `B' has logged in.But this is just a wild guess,I really don't know. So do see if you understand what is happening,and tell me about any ideas/solutions/suggestions you might have. Sagar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
I think the problem is that samba looks at the systemname, not the logon name.> -----Original Message----- > From: McEldowney, Michael [mailto:MMcEldowney@deltaregional.com] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:56 PM > To: 'Sagar Behere'; samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: RE: NT hates Samba ??!? > > > From the scenario you have listed, both user A and user B are logging > into the system as user "se". How is the system supposed to know them > apart if they log in with the same username???????? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sagar Behere [mailto:sagar_behere@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:01 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: NT hates Samba ??!? > > > Hello there, > While fiddling about with the system,I > have noticed the following problem. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > We have some NT machines on our network.It is a 10 > user pack.There are 5 current user accounts on each > system. > > fe,se,te,be and of course,administrator. > > All the 1st year students log in as fe.All the 2nd > year students log in as se and so on.... > > I have made a shortcut to the samba server on the > desktop.Let's say a user ( we will call him `A') logs > in as se .He sees the shortcut (renamed "home" )on the > desktop.When he clicks on it,he is asked for his > username and passwd.After it is authorised,he can see > **only** his home directory,nothing else. > Now,after he logs out,we are again presented > with a "press ctrl+alt+delete to login " > prompt.Now,assume a second user `B' logs in again as > se.Again he will see the "home" shortcut on the > desktop.When he clicks on it,he is again asked for the > username and passwd. > > NOW THE BAD PART...... > > After `B' is authenticated,he should IDEALLY see > **only** his home directory.NOTHING ELSE.But this > doesn't happen.What happens on my network is,he CAN > see the home directory of the previous user `A' who > has logged in before him,and then logged out again.And > he can browse it too. > > So a user from the se account (well it is true for > all users on the other accounts too) can surf the home > directories of the users who had logged in before > him.And that is a definite bother :((( > ------------------------------------------------------ > My guess is that samba is not terminating the > session when the user `A' logs out, 'coz when I check > the number of active sessions, I can see two ( A's and > B's ),even after `A' has logged out,and `B' has logged > in.But this is just a wild guess,I really don't know. > > So do see if you understand what is happening,and > tell me about any ideas/solutions/suggestions you > might have. > > Sagar > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >
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A possible fix. If you are using Roaming Profiles..... The most common cause of this problem is a poor logon path. (See the logon path section of the smb.conf manpage.) Make sure that you are not storing profiles in the HOMES Share...at all...period. I find it's best to create an entirely separate share (names PROFILES, for example) that has no relation to the HOMES share directory path on the Unix server. [HOMES] comment = Home Directories read-only = No browsable = No [PROFILES] comment = User Profiles path = /profiles # the point is not in /home/anything browsable = no logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U # \\servername\profiles\username Note that samba will not create the user directory in the profiles share for you. I ran into some problems initially with this so I added a few lines to my adduser script to also create a directory in the /profiles directory that the user owned and only the user had write access to (like the user's home directory permissions). In this case, since you only have four users, you could manually set up the directories in the profile path. This is what I remember off the top of my head. There may be some additional issues as well. If this you're not using profiles, or it doesn't fix the problem. Write back and I'll see what else I changed to fix this. -----Original Message----- From: Jansen, Eric [mailto:Eric_Jansen@cdillc.com] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:54 PM To: 'McEldowney, Michael'; 'Sagar Behere'; samba@us5.samba.org Subject: RE: NT hates Samba ??!? I think the problem is that samba looks at the systemname, not the logon name.> -----Original Message----- > From: McEldowney, Michael [mailto:MMcEldowney@deltaregional.com] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:56 PM > To: 'Sagar Behere'; samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: RE: NT hates Samba ??!? > > > From the scenario you have listed, both user A and user B are logging > into the system as user "se". How is the system supposed to know them > apart if they log in with the same username???????? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sagar Behere [mailto:sagar_behere@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:01 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: NT hates Samba ??!? > > > Hello there, > While fiddling about with the system,I > have noticed the following problem. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > We have some NT machines on our network.It is a 10 > user pack.There are 5 current user accounts on each > system. > > fe,se,te,be and of course,administrator. > > All the 1st year students log in as fe.All the 2nd > year students log in as se and so on.... > > I have made a shortcut to the samba server on the > desktop.Let's say a user ( we will call him `A') logs > in as se .He sees the shortcut (renamed "home" )on the > desktop.When he clicks on it,he is asked for his > username and passwd.After it is authorised,he can see > **only** his home directory,nothing else. > Now,after he logs out,we are again presented > with a "press ctrl+alt+delete to login " > prompt.Now,assume a second user `B' logs in again as > se.Again he will see the "home" shortcut on the > desktop.When he clicks on it,he is again asked for the > username and passwd. > > NOW THE BAD PART...... > > After `B' is authenticated,he should IDEALLY see > **only** his home directory.NOTHING ELSE.But this > doesn't happen.What happens on my network is,he CAN > see the home directory of the previous user `A' who > has logged in before him,and then logged out again.And > he can browse it too. > > So a user from the se account (well it is true for > all users on the other accounts too) can surf the home > directories of the users who had logged in before > him.And that is a definite bother :((( > ------------------------------------------------------ > My guess is that samba is not terminating the > session when the user `A' logs out, 'coz when I check > the number of active sessions, I can see two ( A's and > B's ),even after `A' has logged out,and `B' has logged > in.But this is just a wild guess,I really don't know. > > So do see if you understand what is happening,and > tell me about any ideas/solutions/suggestions you > might have. > > Sagar > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >