In the thread "Network Path was not found" Michael Heydon wrote: <quote> When you have security = share you don't authenticate as a user and as such you don't have a home directory. I would suggest sticking with user level security, share level is a left over from the 9x days and is pretty much obsolete. </quote> I have checked, and my line is definitely security = user. However, I still can't see my /home, even though I can see all the other shares. What other conditions can cause this? Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20080117/d0cffe16/attachment.bin
On Jan 17, 2008 5:03 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@googlemail.com> wrote:> In the thread "Network Path was not found" Michael Heydon wrote: > <quote> > When you have security = share you don't authenticate as a user and as > such you don't have a home directory. I would suggest sticking with user > level security, share level is a left over from the 9x days and is > pretty much obsolete. > </quote> > > I have checked, and my line is definitely security = user. However, I still > can't see my /home, even though I can see all the other shares. What other > conditions can cause this? >A network browsing problem. Specifically the windows machine can not find the ip address of the samba machine. John
Anne Wilson wrote:> In the thread "Network Path was not found" Michael Heydon wrote: > <quote> > When you have security = share you don't authenticate as a user and as > such you don't have a home directory. I would suggest sticking with user > level security, share level is a left over from the 9x days and is > pretty much obsolete. > </quote> > > I have checked, and my line is definitely security = user. However, I still > can't see my /home, even though I can see all the other shares. What other > conditions can cause this? > > Anne >Anne, I bet you have changed the default permission for your home directories from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to something else. If I recall you need world r-x for this to work with homes configured in smb.conf as: [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes Give it a shot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com