Topic: Samba Help

[Bob]

Is there a way to share files w/out having to enter a username and password I need the files/folders to be protected so that they cannot be modified but an admin can?

Any help would be appreciated.

-Bob

[ekhaat]

Well, that depends on how your server is set up. Is it a domain controller? Then you have to log on to the server with username and password.

Please give us some more information on your server, client and network setup.

Cheers

Ekhaat

[Anonymous]

Not a domain controller, all the pcs are xp home (yuck), and its a standalone server not a gateway, it's behind another nix firewall.

Thanks

[raem]

Have you bothered to read the manual. If you did it would be clear to you how to do this.

create an ibay
then set ownership as follows

Group (owner) = Admin
User access via file sharing =  Write=Group  Read=everyone

[Anonymous]

I did read the manual, and I did setup an i-bay just like that, but it's not working.  That would be the reason I'm here asking for help.

Thanks though for your input.

-Bob

[raem]

Bob
You asked how to do it, which suggested you did not know how. Rather than making us guess or read your mind for what you already have done, how about telling us what you have done, what you expected to happen, what does or does not happen and what error messages you receive, precisely please. That way we will have a clue how to advise you.

Regards
Ray

[raem]

Bob
I am going to guess whats happening.
You say
Is there a way to share files w/out having to enter a username and password
and
all the pcs are xp home

I'm guessing you are not logging each PC onto the network with a user name and password. If so you won't be able to access network resources ie ibays mapped drives on the server, even if the ibay is setup correctly.

What is your network login arrangement ?

Regs
Ray

[Anonymous]

No network login whatsoever, you are correct in assuming that we don't login, it's a small network less than 20 pcs.  I don't want to have to login, I was wondering if there is a way, to share a IBAY, like you would share a folder in windows (IE, right click, sharing, share this folder on the network, but not let others change files.)

Any idea how to go about doing this?

[smeghead]

Place the files you want to share in the files folder of the primary website on the SME box.

Set ftp to private in the server manager.

Access those files by ftp in your browser or Windows explorer; create a favorite to link to this location for ease of use.  By default the files are read only access.

HTH

[Boris]

1. Even on the XP home you DO have to logon.
It just first user created logged in automatically if where is no more users by default.
2. Everyone on SME server is NOT the anonymous user. It is only for users who have accounts on this SME server (or SME domain)

What you need to do is:
1. Find out the user name and password for each workstation. Rename if necessary to make login name compatible with SME (no space in the user name etc...) create password for each users if its not done already. Use Tweak-UI utility if necessary to configure auto logon as that user.
2. Create matching accounts on SME server for every user in the network with the same password.
3. Create Ibay with admin as an owner (read write) and everyone (read only)
4. Map drive if needed for every desktop.

From the users perspective it will not be separate login to the server in this scenario as login will happed automatically on the background (silent logon),