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Hilton Gibson hilton.gibson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 14:20:47 UTC 2012


Here is a good starter guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html


On 23 October 2012 16:16, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

>  I've done something similar...some time back,
>
> You can start reading the samba manual if you have not yet done so, most
> info are there,
>
> I also have webmin installed on all my servers which makes administrating
> them much easier.
>
> now what i did was to hide the folders for certain users from the main
> share
> then I added the shares and gave the user name allowed to access the
> folders
> you can either set samba to use its own user list(recommended) or use your
> linux users
>
> now to access the shares have the user connect by mapping a network drive,
> type the \\ip-addres\sharename   then specify another user name and
> password also, if you leave out the password it still might work(by typing
> the password later)...but no guarantees there.
>
> The manuals are very good you should learn allot there.
>
> HTH
>
>
> On 12/10/23 13:31, nomatter mwale wrote:
>
>   HI
> I am new to linux and have recently installed linux on my computer which I
> intend to use as a server. I would like to set up private shares and allow
> certain users to access the shares and password protect the shares. the
> problem Im having is that I can see the samba folders in my home
> directory and their public. When I try to add users and assign passwords to
> those users. I cannot access those shares from a windows client. I then
> started to use gadmin samba to try and set up those shares. after adding a
> user with gadmin shares my windows clients can nolonger view the samba
> folders. I have a workgroup with 37 computers. My network device is Realtek
> PCIe GBE family controller.
>
> Please help me with this.
>
> Regards
>
> Nomatter
>
>
>
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