Ubuntu Server: I've fell flat on my face with it

[spynappels]

Dude! You rock! Copying files to my server as I speak. Just for information, WinXP allows you to map a drive letter to a folder using different username and password than you may be logged into your local machine as. It seems to be working anyway so thanks very much!!!

[alecz20]

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The poster above os trying to tell you that in addition to the user existing on the Linux box, you also have to create a samba user for each one too. So you should have the same user on the Windows machine, the Linux box, and as a samba user on the Linux box.

-Tim

Hey, nice thread... covers the basics very nice. I plan to set up a file/media server in a few days.

I was wondering though... Since Windows does not require the users to have passwords, how can a Windows user still access and write to a samba share on a Ubuntu Server? How would one create the entry for that user in Samba?

In other words... can there be an "Anonymus share", where ANYONE can write to? I suppose that could be owned by root, but the permissions need to be 777 or something like that?

Thanks.

[Ximbiot]

In other words... can there be an "Anonymus share", where ANYONE can write to? I suppose that could be owned by root, but the permissions need to be 777 or something like that?

I've seen people share /tmp from Samba for this purpose. I think one of my old RH distros had a Samba with /tmp shared as [temp] that way by default or at least set up so you could remove comment markers and enable it.

I think the gist was that you create the share like any other share, pointing it at /tmp, making sure guest access is turned on, and writable is set to true. Of course, putting it somewhere else and setting permissions to 777 as you suggested would work as well.

[windependence]

Hey, nice thread... covers the basics very nice. I plan to set up a file/media server in a few days.

I was wondering though... Since Windows does not require the users to have passwords, how can a Windows user still access and write to a samba share on a Ubuntu Server? How would one create the entry for that user in Samba?

In other words... can there be an "Anonymus share", where ANYONE can write to? I suppose that could be owned by root, but the permissions need to be 777 or something like that?

Thanks.

Thanks for the compliment!

Yes, you can set up a globally accessible share. You do it in the samba configuration file. The permissions don't necessarily have to be 777. I have never set up one of these globally accessed shares but I know it can be done.

-Tim

[Uluen]

The poster above os trying to tell you [...]

I think I was pretty clear but that's my style, I usually give clues and point people in the right direction.

I know I learn more by figuring out thing myself than to be given a complete howto