The beer sounds good but I'm a bit far away. I'll settle for virtual beer.
DNS has nothing to do with share modes. If you want to have the access to
devices on a particular maching automatic, right click on network
neigherborhood, then select properties->Access Control->user-level access
control. In the box below, type the netbios name of your samba server. It
will ask you if it's okay to remove the old shares. Windows will then
authenticate your rights to access the device through the samba server.
Alternatively, if you want to have users prompted for a password which you
have set on each device, then leave the share mode on Share-level access
control. If you change to user-level control the computer will want to
reboot to activate the changes.
After your reboot, you have to share the drives again. Right click on the
drive or folder you want to share, click sharing (you might have to click
properties and then sharing depending on the version of windows you have).
You will get a properties box. Click Shared As..., then type a share name.
You will see a box below. Here you will add the users you want to access
the device. Click add, then your workgroup name (careful to select the
workgroup and not the computer name if you want to specify users from the
samba server list), then select the users or groups from the list. Click
okay when you're done and you should be able to access the shares over the
network. If a user not added tries they should be denied. You only need
the mount commands when accessing via command line in linux. Otherwise
you're all gui.
I'll expect that virtual beer in the mail now.
John
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From: "scc"
Hi again.
I'm nearly there but the sentence: 'Set the w98 box on user share mode if you are using the samba server as your domain authenticator. Add your username to the share's access list.' Is still beyond us.
I set up the DNS scripts (the ones with 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa and if you get a full stop wrong it doesn't work) on our Samba server. I think this must be our domain authenticator no? How do I set the w98 box on user share mode? How do I add my username to the share's access list?
Please don't give up on us. If you are ever in Alicante (Spain) I'll gladly pay for the beers!
Cheers, Steve.
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