I am replacing an old system running RH9 with a new one running CentOS5, this system is a fileserver only. On the old RH9 system I had it configured so that one Samba user had no password, this user has read only access to the server and is the Windows user on my Mame arcade system (no keyboard so it's impossible to have a password on that system). I can not figure out how to get it configured the same way on my new CentOS5 system. I created the user, deleted the user's password, added the user to the Samba Users list, and still no go. Can someone please provide a bit of assistance on this??? I'd like to add to this and also post the smb.conf as requested. I was just testing further and found that a user, apape, has read access to some shares (data, and mp3) yet not write access, and this user does not have any access to another share (rosanne). The user apape is in the following groups: apape, rmusel, root. Also the user apape has no access to their own home directory. To further add to this, the user rmusel has read access to data and mp3 as they should. This user has no access to rosanne nor their own home directory. Clearly something is off on my permissions, I just do not know what. I have the same share settings as I did in the RH9 system and everything there worked perfectly. Here's what is in my smb.conf file. # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too # many!) most of which are not shown in this example # # For a step to step guide on installing, configuring and using samba, # read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This may be obtained from: # http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf # # Many working examples of smb.conf files can be found in the # Samba-Guide which is generated daily and can be downloaded from: # http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm" # to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors. # #--------------- # SELINUX NOTES: # # If you want to use the useradd/groupadd family of binaries please run: # setsebool -P samba_domain_controller on # # If you want to share home directories via samba please run: # setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on # # If you create a new directory you want to share you should mark it as # "samba-share_t" so that selinux will let you write into it. # Make sure not to do that on system directories as they may already have # been marked with othe SELinux labels. # # Use ls -ldZ /path to see which context a directory has # # Set labels only on directories you created! # To set a label use the following: chcon -t samba_share_t /path # # If you need to share a system created directory you can use one of the # following (read-only/read-write): # setsebool -P samba_export_all_ro on # or # setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw on # # If you want to run scripts (preexec/root prexec/print command/...) please # put them into the /var/lib/samba/scripts directory so that smbd will be # allowed to run them. # Make sure you COPY them and not MOVE them so that the right SELinux context # is applied, to check all is ok use restorecon -R -v /var/lib/samba/scripts # #-------------- # #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # ----------------------- Netwrok Related Options ------------------------- # # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH # # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field # # netbios name can be used to specify a server name not tied to the hostname # # Interfaces lets you configure Samba to use multiple interfaces # If you have multiple network interfaces then you can list the ones # you want to listen on (never omit localhost) # # Hosts Allow/Hosts Deny lets you restrict who can connect, and you can # specifiy it as a per share option as well # workgroup = apape.net server string = Samba Server Version %v netbios name = Warehouse ; interfaces = lo eth0 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 ; hosts allow = 127. 192.168.12. 192.168.13. hosts allow = 192.168.12. 127. # --------------------------- Logging Options ----------------------------- # # Log File let you specify where to put logs and how to split them up. # # Max Log Size let you specify the max size log files should reach # logs split per machine log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log # max 50KB per log file, then rotate max log size = 50 # ----------------------- Standalone Server Options ------------------------ # # Scurity can be set to user, share(deprecated) or server(deprecated) # # Backend to store user information in. New installations should # use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards # compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration. security = user passdb backend = tdbsam username map = /etc/samba/smbusers null passwords = yes # ----------------------- Domain Members Options ------------------------ # # Security must be set to domain or ads # # Use the realm option only with security = ads # Specifies the Active Directory realm the host is part of # # Backend to store user information in. New installations should # use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards # compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration. # # Use password server option only with security = server or if you can't # use the DNS to locate Domain Controllers # The argument list may include: # password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name] # or to auto-locate the domain controller/s # password server = * ; security = domain ; passdb backend = tdbsam ; realm = MY_REALM ; password server = # ----------------------- Domain Controller Options ------------------------ # # Security must be set to user for domain controllers # # Backend to store user information in. New installations should # use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards # compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration. # # Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This # allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this # if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job # # Domain Logons let Samba be a domain logon server for Windows workstations. # # Logon Scrpit let yuou specify a script to be run at login time on the client # You need to provide it in a share called NETLOGON # # Logon Path let you specify where user profiles are stored (UNC path) # # Various scripts can be used on a domain controller or stand-alone # machine to add or delete corresponding unix accounts # ; security = user ; passdb backend = tdbsam ; domain master = yes ; domain logons = yes # the login script name depends on the machine name ; logon script = %m.bat # the login script name depends on the unix user used ; logon script = %u.bat ; logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%u # disables profiles support by specifing an empty path ; logon path = ; add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd "%u" -n -g users ; add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd "%g" ; add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -n -c "Workstation (%u)" -M -d /nohome -s /bin/false "%u" ; delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel "%u" ; delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/userdel "%u" "%g" ; delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel "%g" # ----------------------- Browser Control Options ---------------------------- # # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply # # OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser # elections. The default value should be reasonable # # Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on startup # and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election local master = no ; os level = 33 ; preferred master = yes #----------------------------- Name Resolution ------------------------------- # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both # # - WINS Support: Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server # # - WINS Server: Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client # # - WINS Proxy: Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on # behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be # at least one WINS Server on the network. The default is NO. # # DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names # via DNS nslookups. ; wins support = yes ; wins server = w.x.y.z ; wins proxy = yes ; dns proxy = yes dns proxy = no # --------------------------- Printing Options ----------------------------- # # Load Printers let you load automatically the list of printers rather # than setting them up individually # # Cups Options let you pass the cups libs custom options, setting it to raw # for example will let you use drivers on your Windows clients # # Printcap Name let you specify an alternative printcap file # # You can choose a non default printing system using the Printing option ; load printers = yes cups options = raw ; printcap name = /etc/printcap #obtain list of printers automatically on SystemV ; printcap name = lpstat ; printing = cups # --------------------------- Filesystem Options --------------------------- # # The following options can be uncommented if the filesystem supports # Extended Attributes and they are enabled (usually by the mount option # user_xattr). Thess options will let the admin store the DOS attributes # in an EA and make samba not mess with the permission bits. # # Note: these options can also be set just per share, setting them in global # makes them the default for all shares ; map archive = no ; map hidden = no ; map read only = no ; map system = no ; store dos attributes = yes #============================ Share Definitions ============================== [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writeable = yes ; valid users = %S ; valid users = MYDOMAIN\%S [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no ; guest ok = no ; writeable = no printable = yes # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons ; [netlogon] ; comment = Network Logon Service ; path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon ; guest ok = yes ; writable = no ; share modes = no # Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share # the default is to use the user's home directory ; [Profiles] ; path = /var/lib/samba/profiles ; browseable = no ; guest ok = yes # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group ; [public] ; comment = Public Stuff ; path = /home/samba ; public = yes ; writable = yes ; printable = no ; write list = +staff # This shares rosanne for read/write access to all members of the group # rmusel and forces the ownership of all files written to this directory # to be owned by user rmusel and group rmusel [rosanne] comment = Rosanne's Directory path = /rosanne writeable = yes guest ok = yes ; printable = no write list = @rmusel force group = rmusel force user = rmusel # This one shares the /mp3 directory to all users therefore # allowing all machines on the internal network to access music. [mp3] comment = MP3 Server path = /mp3 writeable = yes guest ok = yes ; printable = no read list = rmusel, player create mask = 774 # sets -rwxrwxr-- permission # This one shares the /data directory to members of the apape group for # read/write access and to all other users for read access only. [data] comment = Data directory path = /data guest ok = yes writeable = yes ; printable = no write list = @apape create mask = 774 # sets -rwxrwxr-- permission

strange that you smb.conf is so large. mine is : [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: LINUX2 workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = eServer # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = eServer Music Share # Security mode. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible # values are share, user, server, domain and ads. Most people will want # user level security. See the HOWTO Collection for details. security = share [public] comment = Music Share path = /mnt/terra/Music browseable = yes guest ok = yes public = yes read only = yes The only other thing i can think of is you access control list, you have : hosts allow = 192.168.12. 127. Might need to be : hosts allow = 192.168.12.0/24 127.0.0.1