Remember,
You either need to map your linux user accounts to your windows
logins or you need to log into windows using the correct userid and
password for the linux box.
Wade
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From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Sasa Stupar
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:49 AM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Samba Issues
Richard Crawford wrote:
> I'm running Samba 2.3x on a RH 8 box and sharing out my wife's and my
> home directories so that we can access them from our Windows
computers.
>
> I use the "Map Network Drive" tool under Windows to connect my share
> on
> the Linux box to my Windows computer as Drive Z:, so I can save files
> there and edit them on either my Windows computer or my Linux desktop
> computer.
>
> Unfortunately, when I save files onto the share, they show up as being
> created and owned by username "nobody". The consequence of that is
that
> files I create with Windows cannot be edited with Linux.
>
> Is there a way to set it up so that files I create in Windows show up
> as
> owned by my regular Linux user account? I have tried selecting
"connect
> as different user" when mapping the remote drive in Windows, but that
> doesn't help.
>
>
>
You can setup Samba access to USER instead of SHARE and you need to add
users to linux box eg. you and your wife. Then each of you will have
it's own folder on linux box with its own permissions.
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