The user that you are sharing the folder to has to have rights to view the folder in Linux. For the user you added before, you were able then to view his own folder because his folder was created with him as the owner when the user was created. /etc is only readable by root. That is why the new user you created can't read it. There is a security problem with allowing users to modify the files in etc.
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Salamone Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Password Hi, I am trying to setup a share of my etc directory so I can access it on my win98 machine but I am getting the following msg: \\comp.name\etcshare and then a password. What do I need to do to solve this. As an example, I did the following: [root@server]#useradd xxxx [root@server]#passwd xxxx Changing password for user xxxx. New password: xxxxx BAD PASSWORD: it is too short Retype new password: xxxxx [root@server]#smbpasswd -a xxxx New SMB password: xxxxx Retype new SMB password: xxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
