Help With Samba

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That would be quite a flaw because I sit there supplying a password and
never get in.  If it was that kind of flaw then it wouldn't work at all and
I suspect it would have been discovered.

 Rejean Proulx
Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
Ham License VA3REJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: RE: Help With Samba


> This is only a guess, but it might be a flaw in that Windows XP is
> trying to access or ask you for a password for every single individual
> file and subdirectory it encounters? I have no clue how you would go
> about fixing the problem if this were the case, but I just wanted to
> offer that as a possibility.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Rejean Proulx
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:32 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Help With Samba
>
>
> I need help.  I configure Samba and when I access it with Windows XP,
> the first time it asks me for a user ID.  I set one up so I enter it and
> it happily lists resources for me which are a few folders and a printer
> folder. When I select a folder it asks me for a user ID again.  It
> doesn't not bring forward the one I enter previously, so I figure that
> is stupid so I supply it.  after that it asks again, and again, and
> again, and again, until I quit.
>
> Windows is a little different.  It does the same thing except that it
> tells me that it is unable to match credentials.  It is interesting that
> I can get as far as the list of folders.
>
> If I close it and go back in using Windows XP, it doesn't ask me for the
> user ID again before listing the folders because if has obviously
> remembered.  When I select a folder, the loop comes. It asks again, and
> again, and again.
>
> Here is how I have the folders set up.  I tried turning off the
> encryption but that makes it worse.  When I do that, I can't even get to
> the list of folders.  Here is how it is set up.
>
> [web]
> comment = Web Files
> path = /var/www
> valid users = @users
> force group = users
> read only = No
> create mask = 0770
> directory mask = 0770
> guest ok = Yes
>
>
>
>
>  Rejean Proulx
> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> Ham License VA3REJ
>
>
>
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