[LBo] Samba question

[Stefan Waidele jun.]

Hi Tim,

Tim wrote:
> [...]
> But now I need to setup a third share that is only accessible to my wifes PC 
> (XP Pro) and on a `on demand' basis and with a different user name and 
> password

To restrict the connecting machines, you could:
   * use the "host allow" option in smb.conf
   * insert a %m into the share's path, to include the client-machine's 
netbios name /share/samba/%m/mom would then translate to 
/share/samba/momspc/mom on the "right" PC and to /share/samba/kidspc/mom 
(and thus another directory or "not found") on the "wrong" PCs
   * The same is available by IP-adress %I

I did not find an "allow user" option in the documentation. I think that 
might be my mistake...

But you can set the unix-permissions in a way that only the 
"supermom"-user can access them.

> than the users uses for logging on. My daughter and son use the 
> wifes PC (and know her username and password) and don't want them to have 
> access to this folder.

Don't connect to the share automatically, and (most important) don't 
save the password. Then you (and your wife) should be fine.

HTH,

Stefan

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