Also How can stop smbd and nmbd? This might be giving me a limit to the number of
users accessing shared directories at one time.
Loay Oweis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did check to see if my cgi-bin directory did have world r-x and it did not.
> Once I made the change I was able to see this again.
> Thanks. Richard Sharpe
>
> I remain to have a problem accessing some directories in Samba.
> This was working earlier today. My intranet is trying to access files it
> normally views that it can view.
>
> My intent earlier today was to add an additional shared directory for current
> users including more users as well as keeping the first
> users privately intact on the first shared drive.
>
> I changed the name of the first shared directory and created a new directory
> with the older name. They all temporarily worked; however, independently. I
> then received a "can't set guest error" for the original shared directory while
> the later remained active. after 13+ hrs in my office, I decided to change
> everything back to what it was. I am not however able to:
> 1. Access directories from my intranet. (the reason the intranet is in this
> equation is that the contents of the shared directories are viewed thru the
> site.
> 2. I am not able to view my home assigned from SAMBA
>
> I would like to know also if I need to start the smbd and nmbd daemons after
> making changes to the smb.conf.
>
> I am still awake and alive.
>
> Help is appreciated
>
> Loay Oweis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> > Samba shares and Web accessible documentes, whether or not they are on an
> > intranet, are usually two different things.
> >
> > You may be having ownership problems. httpd usually runs as nobody.nobody,
> > and if the directories in your shares area do not have world R-X
> > permissions, you may not be able to see them from a browser. You might not
> > want people to see them either, so be careful.
> >
> > >2. I have a cgi-bin directory which contains 6 files that I am able to
> > >see on the server; however, when I view this directory in the win95
> > >client it appears as having zero files.
> >
> > Oh goody, now users out there can put things in your cgi-bin directory and
> > you have taken a giant step backwards from a security point of view. I
> > certainly hope they cannot write to that directory. Not being able to read
> > from it as well is good from a security point of view. If they could read
> > your cgi scripts they could find the security holes all that much faster.
> > Regards
> > -------
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