On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:01:02AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:22 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I am trying to connect to several shares on my Fedora 8 system as different users from a Windows XP system.
I can't get the "Connect using a different user name" from XP to work at all. I can only ever connect as the user I'm logged on to the XP system as. I want to connect as a different user to one particular share so I don't have to open up the write permissions.
Has anyone else used this and got it to work?
When I try "Connect using a different user name" I enter a valid samba user and password but it always fails and asks for the user name and password again. Even if I enter the user name that I already am in the boxes it fails. Does the user name need some sort of domain prefix or something?
samba by default uses
security = user
which by current Windows standards means that a workstation can connect to this particular server with only 1 identity. Thus if you are already connected to a share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\foo, you cannot connect to a different share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\bar
the 'security = share' concept emulates the Windows 95/98 sharing concept where each share connection can be a different user but that is essentially obsolete and should be avoided if possible.
Yes, I suspect that's my problem, what a pain!
I seem to remember there's a way to tell samba that I want user X to connect to a particular share as user Y, I guess (if there is such a thing and my memory isn't playing tricks) that's what I'd better do.