Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 and Windows XP user volumes

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:49:39 -0500
> From: Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> We've recently discovered that users with Windows XP don't get prompted for
> passwords when they connect to user file space on our Qube3. That is, if I
> fire up a WinXP machine in my office, I can see files in the "Private"
> directories of any other user on our Qube, without being prompted for a
> password. In fact, I can read and write to those files and directories.

As whom are you logged in on the XP machine?

> Knowing very little about Windows networking (thankfully not my primary
> function), I have no idea why this should be possible. IIUC samba handles
> these "network volumes", and shouldn't samba recognize user rights?
> 
> What am I missing here? (And how do I patch it, short of asking MS to send
> me OS downgrades?)

Warning: 1) I'm a bit rusted on Samba and 2) I have my mind on
some other things.  IOW, please take the following as a nudge
(hopefully) in the right direction, but I'll not swear to it.

Sounds to me like a Samba misconfig.  You might have a domain
trust relationship where Samba says, "Hi, XP machine, if you say
that they're admin, it must be so!"

Domain controller issues are my gut feel.


Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
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