samba with share level security

[federico_3]

I have installed samba on a 11.00 server using the share level security. I would like to connect through the PC ( in which there is Win NT) to a share typing the password of the share . I remember this could be done with lanmanager ( the previous version of Advanced Server for Unix).
Is it possible in samba?

[Vincent Stedema]

If I understand you correctly, you want to access a UNIX share from an NT client. The UNIX share is already configured correctly.

Try the following:

1. Go to Start -> Run
2. Type: \\\
3. If all goes well, you will be prompted for the password.

HTH.

Regards,

Vincent

[federico_3]

I know that...... i said another thing:
i should connect using the share level security ( whitout using a samba user and relative password as in user level security) that is based on assigning a resource password and resource permissions.

[Vincent Stedema]

Could you please be more specific? I don't quite understand what your problem is. Are you having problems setting up smb.conf for share level access?

Vincent

[federico_3]

I want to connect to a share and the PC has to ask to me the share password ( this password is used by all the users that want to connect to the same resource)

[Vincent Stedema]

Use the "user" or "username" directive to specify a user whose password will be used to secure the share.

e.g. :

[myshare]
path = /my_share
valid users = shareuser
username = shareuser
guest ok = no

Then, create a user "shareuser" on your system, set the password for this user and distribute the password among the persons who should have access to the share.


Vincent