Topic: Restricting "nobody" logins

[David Trask]

Hi,

I am running E-Smith server in a school setting (K-8) as a file server. Currently the server allows "nobody logons" or in other words....if a kid spells their username wrong...it still lets them in and they don't realize their error until they go to save and their home folder or mapped drive doesn't exist. Is their a way to restrict the server to only accept users who actually exist? Any help would be appreciated. E-Smith has been a godsend for us as I replaced a bloated and unneccessary Win2k server. I love it. Thanks again

[Michael Doerner]

David,

that sounds very similar to what we did recently for a school (even the Win2k replacement .

I suspect what you need to do are changes for the Samba setup. You don't want to accept guests, only pre-defined userids.

You would have to change 2 Samba parameters in Samba's "smb.conf" file:

guest ok = no and
map to guest = never.

This should be done in a custom-template.

Regards,
Michael Doerner