Re: Accessing Samba shares on powerbook from windows

Iain Day wrote:
Hi,

I've been setting up samba sharing of my home directory and that of my girlfriend from my powerbook G4 (tiger 10.4.7). Its working okay, except for a slight niggle.

Each of us has a separate account on the powerbook, with different home directories and passwords etc. From a windows laptop (running XP Pro) I connect as follows: \\powerbook\ijday or \\powerbook\girlfriend and I get prompted for a username and password.

The trouble is, if I log on to my share as me, I can get also access my girlfriend's share, and vice versa. I thought that a username would only get you access to that share?


Okay, so a little googling later, I've found that adding

valid users = %S

to the [homes] section has fixed things up. I was using SharePoints, but it didn't give me this option.


Iain
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