SOLVED: Samba 3.0.0 Access Blues

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Wed Dec 24 00:03:47 UTC 2003


On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Gar Nelson wrote:

> Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:35:53AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> >
> >>I am taking a Samba setup essentialy unchanged from Samba on Red Hat 8
> >>(samba-2.2.7-5.8.0) to Fedora Core 1 (samba-3.0.0-15). I can use
> >>smbclient to access anonymous shares (i.e. those not requiring a
> >>password). I cannot use smbclient to access my home
> >>directory. Security is the default, user, and passwords are to be
> >>encrypted.
>
> [...]
>
> > I finally found the problem. I had "valid users = %S" in the
> > configuration file, apparently figuring that Samba would expand the
> > %S. It does not. I changed it to "valid users = ccurley" and it
> > worked.
>
> Actually, this seems like a real problem.  I have 30+ users, each with a
> home directory on my samba server. I have 3.0 on a test server now, to
> get everything worked out before moving it online. Good thing, eh?
>
> While your solution works for a single user, I'd still like to see the
> question answered for a multiuser environment.

Judging by the release notes at
http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.1.html
it sounds like this problem may be fixed in 3.0.1.

	Michael Young





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