In article <48220162.5040904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Evans <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bob Latham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got a bit stuck with Samba shares but I'll bet that's a common > > problem. In System=>Administration=>Samba on the Access tab there > > appears to be the option to "only allow access to specific users". > > > > Is there an obvious reason why I can't seem to add a user at this > > point? > Bob: > Yes - I hit this too. With Samba you have to create Samba Users. These > may be the same as your linux users - but not necessarily so. If you > are using that System/Admin/Samba GUI there is a separate bit under the > preferences tab for doing that. Once you have created them you can > check them in the "allow access to..." bit. Thanks Mike, Given that a try and yes I can now add that user. Thanks. A lot I don't understand though like why the Unix user name has to be chosen from a pre set list of seemingly quite odd names that you can't add to. Anyway, I have added the user to the share but of course windows still refuses to have anything to do with it. I'm guessing but windows doesn't ask for a user name and password as I would expect (error: The account is not authorized to log in from this station) so I think that linux is using the password the PC user is logged on to the PC with which is not what I want at all. How do you make it ask for a user name and password? Bah. Exasperation! I've only being trying just over a week to share a folder with a user name and password so that any windows user that knows the password can access the share. A 30 second job on W98 its like climbing Everest on Linux. Thanks again Mike, sorry if my frustration is showing too much. Cheers, Bob. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
