Hi, When we first installed SAMBA on our IBM AIX 5.3 server, we created 6 shares. For some reason we have discovered that to access a Samba share we always had to assign one share ahead of all others to a user for that user to gain access. ( i.e. If a user requires access to the "extracts" share, we have to assign the "reports" share first in the user login, and then assign the "extracts" share to gain access to the "extracts" share. We always have to assign the "reports" share first for everyone that will be using SAMBA) Any ideas what we have done wrong in the setup? Thanks Dave
Wagg, Dave wrote:> Hi, > > When we first installed SAMBA on our IBM AIX 5.3 server, we created 6 > shares. For some reason we have discovered that to access a Samba share > we always had to assign one share ahead of all others to a user for that > user to gain access. ( i.e. If a user requires access to the "extracts" > share, we have to assign the "reports" share first in the user login, > and then assign the "extracts" share to gain access to the "extracts" > share. We always have to assign the "reports" share first for everyone > that will be using SAMBA) > >Hi Dave, Version 2.2.7 is very old. Is this the IBM provided version from the AIX toolbox? You may want to consider: http://pware.hvcc.edu/downloads.html and download something more recent in the 3.3 (3.3.10) or 3.4 (3.4.5) series. Also, it is helpful to include your smb.conf (minus any security related stuff) so we can view your setup and offer advice. Cheers, Bill> Any ideas what we have done wrong in the setup? > > Thanks > Dave > >
Hi Volker, Thanks for the info!! Do I have to stop and start Samba for this change to take effect? I made the change thru SWAT and committed the change. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:43 AM To: Wagg, Dave Cc: samba at lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 2.2.7 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:38:59AM -0500, Wagg, Dave wrote:> # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup = FLINX > security = SHAREsecurity=share is most definitely your problem. You should switch to security=user and provide smbpasswd for every user. Volker
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Wagg, Dave wrote:> Hi Volker, > > Thanks for the info!! > > Do I have to stop and start Samba for this change to take effect? I > made the change thru SWAT and committed the change.Yes, a restart is required, and you have to provide passwords for all the users. Please make sure that you do understand the difference between SHARE and USER security, this is a significant change. Volker -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100122/02acfbf9/attachment.pgp>
Hi Volker, My initial test with my own id worked great!! Thank you so much for this fix. Hope you have a great weekend! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:58 AM To: Wagg, Dave Cc: samba at lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 2.2.7 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Wagg, Dave wrote:> Hi Volker, > > Thanks for the info!! > > Do I have to stop and start Samba for this change to take effect? I > made the change thru SWAT and committed the change.Yes, a restart is required, and you have to provide passwords for all the users. Please make sure that you do understand the difference between SHARE and USER security, this is a significant change. Volker