Hi, On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, david aliata <aliatadavid@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a small linux/windows network running very well.
Good! so we don't need exotic things like ldap for user storage.. local
users :)
solution for this.I would like to implement [homes] or [usershares] for user directories and file storage:from Windows XP.How can i implement this?
The drill usually goes like this - Create a user account for each user (useradd -m user1 ) - Set a strong passwd (pwgen) if they shouldn't ssh set their shell to '/bin/false' (user passwd to adjust the password and edit /etc/passwd to set the shell. Alt, you can give an argument to useradd to set the shell ... man is your friend) - Add the user to samba store and key in the passwd the user should key in from windows world (smbpasswd -a user1 ) - Set the shares by reviewing /etc/samba/smb.conf (it's dead simple) - Restart samba - try ( net use or \\server\share to connect to your share) - if fail :Check logs :verify you don't have a restrictive MAC setup ...selinux/apparmor :Increase verbosity in the samba configuration and follow your logs