X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=sfrench%2Fsamba-autobuild%2F.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fdocbook%2Ffaq%2Ferrors.xml;h=398286e3c96ec708516f733bd2663961f680b92b;hp=97619ce704c2dbbda857454c428e44e8aa1345bc;hb=eb0c0845e2ad5a9c6f76f144a4d8cd98f30a53d8;hpb=0b43d7d02ec9b1044e7c34d4c923e20e62b33bc8 diff --git a/docs/docbook/faq/errors.xml b/docs/docbook/faq/errors.xml index 97619ce704c..398286e3c96 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/faq/errors.xml +++ b/docs/docbook/faq/errors.xml @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ SMB password encryption. enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of the samba HOWTO Collection -disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about +disable this behaviour in NT. See the section about Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection @@ -98,79 +98,4 @@ before exporting it with Samba. - -Why can users access home directories of other users? - - - -We are unable to keep individual users from mapping to any other user's -home directory once they have supplied a valid password! They only need -to enter their own password. I have not found *any* method that I can -use to configure samba to enforce that only a user may map their own -home directory. - - - - -User xyzzy can map his home directory. Once mapped user xyzzy can also map -*anyone* elses home directory! - - - -This is not a security flaw, it is by design. Samba allows -users to have *exactly* the same access to the UNIX filesystem -as they would if they were logged onto the UNIX box, except -that it only allows such views onto the file system as are -allowed by the defined shares. - - - -This means that if your UNIX home directories are set up -such that one user can happily cd into another users -directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to -change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories -such that the cd and ls would be denied. - - - -Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators -security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set -the policies and permissions he or she desires. - - - -Samba does allow the setup you require when you have set the -"only user = yes" option on the share, is that you have not set the -valid users list for the share. - - - -Note that only user works in conjunction with the users= list, -so to get the behavior you require, add the line : - -users = %S - -this is equivalent to: - -valid users = %S - -to the definition of the [homes] share, as recommended in -the smb.conf man page. - - - - - -Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error "Domain Controller Unavailable" - -A domain controller has to announce on the network who it is. This usually takes a while. - - - - -I'm getting "open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested" in the logs -Your loopback device isn't working correctly. Make sure it's running. - - -