I want to have full access to my FreeBSD files from my Windows 98 computer so I am attempting to setup SAMBA. Both boxes are on a network behind a firewall. I have managed to get to the point where if I set guest ok to Yes in SWAT, I can 'see' the share and the files. But I cannot modify anything. I think it is a problem with Win98 not sending the correct username and password to the FreeBSD box, but I'm at a loss as to how to make them both agree on it. What am I missing? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
If you are logged in as a guest, then you are likely logged in as some user with very limited permissions, like ftp or nobody. You can see what user name you are logged in with by running smbstatus. If security isn't a problem, change guest account = root (very risque) or guest account = A regular user And, make security = share Here is an example: [global] security = SHARE guest account = root (or some regular user) [AllFiles] comment = All Files path = / read only = No guest ok = Yes Just be sure your firewall is working. Joel On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:07:16PM -0800, Craig Wiseman wrote:> I want to have full access to my FreeBSD files from my > Windows 98 computer so I am attempting to setup SAMBA. > > Both boxes are on a network behind a firewall. > > I have managed to get to the point where if I set > guest ok to Yes in SWAT, I can 'see' the share and the > files. But I cannot modify anything. > > I think it is a problem with Win98 not sending the > correct username and password to the FreeBSD box, but > I'm at a loss as to how to make them both agree on it. > > What am I missing? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! > http://auctions.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Craig Wiseman wrote: > I have managed to get to the point where if I set > guest ok to Yes in SWAT, I can 'see' the share and the > files. But I cannot modify anything. Did you set "readonly = no" on the share? > I think it is a problem with Win98 not sending the > correct username and password to the FreeBSD box, but > I'm at a loss as to how to make them both agree on it. If samba is configured to use encrypted passwords, you need to add a password with smbpasswd(8) for each user that you want to have access. FreeBSD encrypted passwords and MS encrypted passwords are not compatable. If you turn off encrypted password you'll need to apply a registry hack to make Win98 auth without encrypting the password, but then you won't need smbpasswd. Read the docs that come with the samba distro, there is some very excellent stuff in there concerning passwords. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com