After talk on here I'm playing with ubuntu after years of windas...
Any pointers please to a good faq on similar level transition queries? E.g.
My admin a/c can see & access other m/c's on windas network but-my workaday "user" a/c can't ? Permissions? How to sort?
Tia
Jim K
Dunno; surely google can find answers to that sort of thing?
I've found the people at newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc useful.
Also uk.comp.os.linux has some knowledgeable people.
Andy C
"user" a/c can't ? Permissions? How to sort?
There is (on mint) a gui tool for managing user privileges which MAY be present in Ubuntu. Its under administration->users and groups->->advanced->user privileges.
But in all cases the issue is that by default the average user can't do that, and needs to be explicitly allowed to.
If you cant fid a gui tool to manage user permissions,this may work:
Its the 'hand' method. From a console shell.
Allow non-root users to mount SMB shares
By default only root may mount SMB shares on the command line. To allow non-root users to mount SMB shares you could set the SUID, but I advise you configure sudo. You should configure sudo with *visudo*
You may either allow the group "users" to mount SMB shares, or add a group, samba, and add users you wish to allow to mount SMB shares to the samba group.
sudo groupadd samba sudo adduser user samba
Change "user" to the username you wish to add to the samba group.
sudo visudo
In the "group" section add your group you wish to allow to mount SMB shares
Add a line in the "group" section : ## Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL %samba ALL=(ALL) /bin/mount,/bin/umount,/sbin/mount.cifs,/sbin/umount.cifs
Change "%samba" to "%users" if you wish to allow members of the users group to mount SMB shares.
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FWIW I still think Xubuntu is preferable to ubuntu
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"user" a/c can't ? Permissions? How to sort?
At a guess the user name and password of your admin account matches the ones you use on your Windows machines.
If you want the Windows shares to be available to every user on the Linux box then consider mounting them using fstab. Try man fstab for details.
normally name and password for SMB access are asked for and held separately from user passwords.
I.e. 'browsing' the network you SHOULD see the machines to connecty to available as user level mounts: clicking on them will prompt for a name/password.
IIRC if you patch fstab, you need to have a name/password as partt of the mount...cifs process. Unlike NFS you wont transfer any rights to the remote machine: you will have the rights of access that the username you gave allows.
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