SAMBA newbie

[Luke Kearney]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 +0000
David Larkin <david.larkin at djl.co.uk> spake thus:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 +0000
> David Larkin <david.larkin at djl.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900
> > Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 +0000
> > > David Larkin <david.larkin at djl.co.uk> spake thus:
> > > 
> > > > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box.
> > > > 
> > > > I am the only user of both.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver.
> > > > 
> > > > I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD.
> > > > 
> > > > I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea.
> > > > 
> > > > Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? 
> > > > 
> > > > After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give.
> > > > 
> > > > Any advice ?
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have
> > > several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest
> > > account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to
> > > think of but two.
> > > 
> > > HTH
> > > 
> > > LukeK
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise
> > 
> > The guest account sounds interesing.
> > 
> > I've commented out the following in smb.conf
> > 
> > # This one is useful for people to share files
> > [tmp]
> >    comment = Temporary file space
> >    path = /tmp
> >    read only = no
> >    public = yes
> > 
> > 
> > should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? 
> > 
> > I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory.
> > guest/guest and nobody/nobody   both fail
> > 
> 
> OK, I got that to work by changing the line 
> security = user
> 
> to
> 
> security = share
> 
> 
> Is this safe ?????

I should think that it is not that good an idea to use /tmp unless you
have it on it's own partition as otherwise you could potentially allow
someone to upload a large file and fill the root partition at which
point a few other things might break too.

HTH

LukeK


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