samba - Aug 2005 - Something Strange in NET Mapping Going On Here.

Hello All,

I was poking around on my Windows mapping and was able to map a network 
drive like:

C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\lonnie

The Samba logs on my server say "....connected to resource lonnie as 
user lonnie....."

This seemed to be normal as I seem to remember logging in at one time 
long ago.

The strange thing is that I just tried:

C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\luke

This actually connected and mapped a network drive to this account wich 
belongs to another one of our developers and the Samba logs say 
"....connected to resource luke as user lonnie....."

Based upon my understanding I should NOT be able to map into someone 
elses home directory, right?

How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Lonnie

On Monday 22 August 2005 14:50, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was poking around on my Windows mapping and was able to map a network
> drive like:
>
> C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\lonnie
>
> The Samba logs on my server say "....connected to resource lonnie as
> user lonnie....."
>
> This seemed to be normal as I seem to remember logging in at one time
> long ago.
>
> The strange thing is that I just tried:
>
> C:> net use P: \\172.16.0.1\luke
>
> This actually connected and mapped a network drive to this account wich
> belongs to another one of our developers and the Samba logs say
> "....connected to resource luke as user lonnie....."
>
> Based upon my understanding I should NOT be able to map into someone
> elses home directory, right?
>
> How can I fix this?
Set permissions on users directories so that only the user has access. This is 
a file system permissions issue.

- John T.
>
> Thanks,
> Lonnie
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