[KLUG Members] help with samba permissions on red hat 9.0

[Mark Bystry]

got it fixed. had to completely remove "eng" and "mark" in redhat and in samba. reboot, added just 
"mark" back into redhat and added "mark" to samba. changed all permissions to "mark" and the group 
called "maple". everything is working now without the "eng" user.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 4/13/2006 8:41 AM:
>> i think i screwed some things up last night on my redhat 9 file server. i wanted to add a user to 
>> redhat and a user to samba so an employee could have access to some of my files. while i was adding 
>> the user (gui mode) i accidentally deleted my user account...DOH! so i added myself back and of 
>> course i could no longer connect via samba from my winxp machine. eventually, after restarting samba 
>> service and rebooting my winxp machine, i finally was able to map the drive that i needed. however...
>> i made sure that my redhat user name and passwd were the same as my windows user name and password. 
>> then i made sure that my samba user name and smbpasswd were the same as my winxp user name and 
>> password. not sure if that necessary but i like it simple.
> 
> Did you make sure your 'new' user account from before has the same
> uidNumber?  Like the SID/RID on windows the uidNumber is the *real*
> credential/context identifier on UNIX/LINUX.  The username is just an
> alias/vanity to the uidNumber.  Ex: root = uidNumber 0;  you can call
> the "root" account anything you like.
> 
>> also, i have an extra user account called "eng" (which stands for engineering) with a unique 
>> password. i also checked the samba user "eng" and made the password equal to the redhat "eng" user 
>> passwd. i use the "eng" account when i map the drive under winxp. don't ask why
>> right now as it stands, i can view my entire dir structure but only have write permissions to some 
>> of my folders. i need write permissions to all of them. what do i need to change? i have a folder 
>> called /home/maple/. i want write permissions to all files and folders under that. hmmm....
> 
> What does the folder look like in a UNIX "ls -la"
> 
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