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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - Hardware Independent > Andrew Tridgell: Samba Forum

sync (unix)samba users with windows users

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dkape (MIS)

26 Feb 03 13:10

I just installed samba on a sun machine running solaris 6.
I was able to share out the directories on the sun machine ok and can map windows drive letters to the samba shares. The Samba machine is not a PDC

What I haven't been able to figure out is how to make the unix file permissions match the windows permissions. For example, if I am logged on to a windows machine as user1 and I access a file in my home area on the samba share that I have write permissions in unix, the file shows as read only in windows. Can I make the two systems see user1 as the same user in windows and unix(samba)

smah (MIS)

26 Feb 03 14:19

Are you sure the "Samba user" has write permissions to this directory? Are there any other Samba users that have read only permissions in this directory - like guest? I suspect you will find that your Samba user is not who you think it is - check the logs. The samba user is not the necessarily the same as the unix user.

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