stephane.purnelle@corman.be
2004-Sep-29 10:09 UTC
Réf. : [Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP
I think that for resolve your problem, you configure samba for become PDC and connect all WINDOWS XP workstations to domain. ----------------------------------- St?phane PURNELLE stephane.purnelle@corman.be Service Informatique Corman S.A. Tel : 00 32 087/342467 |---------+---------------------------------------------------------> | | AndyLiebman@aol.com | | | Envoy? par : | | | samba-bounces+stephane.purnelle=corman.be@list| | | s.samba.org | | | | | | | | | 29/09/2004 11:57 | | | | |---------+---------------------------------------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | Pour : samba@lists.samba.org | | cc : | | Objet : [Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I hope somebody can help me with this. I posed this question a week ago and got several well-meaning answers that were not very helpful. I have 10 Windows XP workstations and 100 users. Each of the 100 users has an account on my Samba server (running Samba 3.03 on Mandrake Linux 10). Each user has several shares on the Samba server which are unique to that user. In other words, only THAT user can access his/her shares, and THAT user has read/write priviledges for those shares. BTW, I define each user's shares by listings in "smb.username.conf" files and the "include=smb.%U.conf" option (I may have that backwards it may be "username.smb.conf" and "include=%U.smb.conf", I have it right on my server.) The problem is, I need each of my 100 users to be able to logon to the Samba server (with READ/WRITE access to their own shares) from any of the 10 Windows XP workstations. It's not a problem if the user has an account on the XP machine that matches the username and password on the Linux Samba server. But users don't have their own machines and it's impractical to create 100 user accounts on EACH Windows XP workstation. Especially when the list of users changes every few months. So my question is, how can those 100 users logon to the Samba server from ANY workstation without having an account on the Windows XP workstation that matches their username/password on the Samba server? I have a clumsy workaround right now, but I need something better. This is what I can do now: -- I have a Samba share that is accessible to everyone. -- In Windows XP, if I "map network drive" on that share and select "connect using different username", I get an opportunity to enter the username and password for the specific user. -- Once the Windows XP machine connects to the Samba server, the Samba server "knows" who the user is and displays a list of the user's own unique shares -- which can then be mapped as well. The thing that's awkward about this technique, however, is that I'm having to map a public share JUST to communicate to the Samba server the username and password. Isn't there a way to get the Samba server to ask for a username and password when the user clicks on the name of the Samba server in Explorer? That's what happens when I click on the name of a Windows XP machine (XP Machine 1) from another Windows XP machine (XP Machine 2) when I'm logged on to Machine 2 with a username and password that does not match an account on XP Machine 1. I get a dialog box asking for a username and password. If I enter a username that has an account on the first machine -- and the matching password -- I connect and get read/write access to all shared drives and folders. I want to get the same dialog box when I click on the Linux Samba server. But how? Thanks in advance for the help. Regards, Andy Liebman -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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