SAMBA on Sheeva Plug

[raj123]

I was trying to get SAMBA working in a certian fashion on sheeva plug but unsuccessful.
I was trying to access the usb drive  on sheeva plug from my windows pc.I would like to have one dir as public where every one has read only access and the other as individual home dir for all users. In both cases, it should be user authenticated. I would appreciate if someone was able to make this or something similar to work.

[NewIT_Marcus]

What do you have working, and what is not working?

Does this help?

http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=704.0

[raj123]

Hi,

I have this working by forcing as root. I was looking for more granularity with security as user.All the users should be authenticated by their user name and password.One share for read only and the other as read write.

Thanks,
Raj

[NewIT_Marcus]

Hi,

I have this working by forcing as root. I was looking for more granularity with security as user.All the users should be authenticated by their user name and password.One share for read only and the other as read write.

Thanks,
Raj

When you say "All the users should be authenticated by their user name and password", do you mean their system user name and password, or by different, samba - specific user name & password?

If I understand correctly, the first model is implemented with the security directive:

Code:

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
#   security = user

In principle, your design is sound. Two shares, two sets of permissions. There is some quite basic Ubuntu stuff on the Ubuntu Community documentation. If your current configuration doesn't provide the functionality that you expect, you are going to have to post at least parts of your samba.conf either here or at another forum.