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Talk about a miserable failure.June 24, 2007
Samba Networking
For me a perfect Samba share lets me log in as my account on the machine. Here’s how to set that up on Ubuntu Feisty:
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and turn on user accounts:
# “security = user” is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
security = user
Now you just have to add a “Samba user”. My theory is that if it’s the same username as a system account, all actions that the Samba daemon takes are done under that user account. The password can be different, though, which is nice. This way you can transfer a file over to your home directory without modifying permissions, and the file will be owned by you once it’s there.
sudo smbpasswd -L -a phil
sudo smbpasswd -L -e phil
That’s it!