Debian Samba issue from a newbie

[ox45tallboy]

Greetings,


I'm a network admin looking to save some company $$ by setting a linux box for password-protected shares, rather than sending more money to Redmond.

I've set up four shares for four users: Jeff (the boss), Pam, Myrna, and Tia. The idea is for everyone to upload copies of all of their disorganized company materials, so they can be sorted and cataloged and various versions of documents can be combined and standardized. Later we'll work on a read-only repository with master copies of form letters and whatnot.

Pam, Myrna, and Tia should have password-protected access to their own directories, while Jeff should have access to his own as well as the other three. (all four users are running XP).

Pam, Myrna, and Tia connect properly; they get a prompt for a password when they double-click the server; they can then view all four directories but only access their own. Mapping a drive as a persistent share works fine, too.

The problem is Jeff. I created his userlogon (jeff) exactly as I did the others, and I've even deleted him and re-created him.

The only difference I can find is that Jeff signs on to his local machine with a password, but the others do not. However, I cannot access the shares using his logon from any of the other computers, which do not require passwords to log on.

Here's the relevant part of my smb.conf (let me know if there are other relevant parts):

security = user
guest account = nobody

[JEFF]
comment = Jeff's stuff
path = /share/Jeff
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
public = yes
create mask = 7777
directory mask = 7777
valid users = jeff

[MYRNA]
comment = Myrna's stuff
path = /share/Myrna
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
public = yes
create mask = 7777
directory mask = 7777
valid users = jeff, myrna

[PAM]
comment = Pam's stuff
path = /share/Pam
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
public = yes
create mask = 7777
directory mask = 7777
valid users = jeff, pam

[TIA]
comment = Tia's stuff
path = /share/Tia
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
public = yes
create mask = 7777
directory mask = 7777
valid users = jeff, tia

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My gut says that the smb.conf isn't the problem (at least this part of it, anyways), since he should be able to access any of the four directories.

Please let me know what direction I should be looking at, and keep in mind I'm a n00b to Samba. (I do have a Ubuntu box running Timetrex for the company for the past two years with no problems.

[ox45tallboy]

Well, it was my fault - I had forgotten to add user "jeff" to samba. So, one little typed line

sudo smbpasswd -a jeff

solved the problem.