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For XP it should work like this: In the Windows File Explorer you can "map a network drive" (menu item under "Options"). In the dialog box that opens up asking you which UNC path (\\192.168.xxx.xxx\Volume_1) you would like to map to which drive letter (e.g., P:), you have some kind of a hyperlink to map the drive using a "different user name". (192.168.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your DNS-323.)

When clicking this hyperlink another dialog box opens up asking you to enter the user credentials with which to map the drive. Enter 192.168.xxx.xxx\<user> (no leading backslashes here!) as user name and the password you've assign to this user when setting up the DNS-323 users.

My translations of the menu items and dialog elements might not be entirely correct as I'm using the German version of XP.

Bernhard

Last edited by bgoedel (2008-01-07 12:17:42)

As far as I remember, after purchasing the DNS-323 all users (i.e. anonymous) had access to the root directory, aka Volume_1. Thus, you can simply map it and create subdirectories. After doing so, you can remove this anonymous permission. Then, you create users (and groups if needed) and give them permissions to the subdirectories you've created as you like.

Of course, as long as there are no subdirectories under Volume_1 you won't see any browsing in the config page.

I can access my NAS also using the UNC path, i.e. I don't need to map it onto a drive letter. However, I didn't encounter the problem you described above, namely that the user name field is grayed out disabling you to enter a different user name than "guest".

The users configured for the NAS are independent from the ones configured in Windows. When being asked for an user name you have to give the authorization entity additionally to the user name. That is what I've told you in my last posting: 192.168.xxx.xxx\<username> In that case the entity with the IP address 192.168.xxx.xxx will be asked to authorize the user rather than your local Windows.

Bernhard

well i've done some reading on here earlier and i know i can set up a share and map it to a drive letter (in xp at the moment).

But what is driving me up the wall is how to set up many users for the same share ?

When i try and do this the share name goes to share1 share2 etc per user !

How do i set up many users for one shared folder ?

i'm pulling my hair out here

thanks for that, but it's not quite solved yet, because doing that all the users have the same permissions because the group is set up.

I need two users set to read only, and myself read/write for 3 folders, films music and pictures.

thanks again..

I tried a little bit to find out how the native Samba service is configured on the DNS-323 (1.04b58) but I think I have bad news:

Although there is a samba configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf where the shares and access privileges are defined, I was unable to make a configuration satisfying your needs. Reason is that there is a section for each share you've defined and the access privileges are defined the same for all users of this share.
Example:

[ data ]
comment =
path = /mnt/HD_a2/data
valid users = christine bernhard
read only = no
guest ok = no
oplocks =  yes
map archive = yes

As you can see, the share is called "data" and points to /mnt/HD_a2/data. The users "christine" and "bernhard" have access to the share. As the flag "read only" is set to "no" both users are allowed to write to the share.

I tried to duplicate this subsection of the file to additionally give the user "peter" read-only access only. The name of the share should be the same, thus I named the section [ data ] again.

[ data ]
comment =
path = /mnt/HD_a2/data
valid users = peter
read only = yes
guest ok = no
oplocks =  yes
map archive = yes

After restarting the Samba daemon with "/usr/bin/smb restart" the former two users "christine" and "bernhard" didn't have access anymore.

I think, the reason for this is that it is illegal to have two subsections with the same name in this configuration file. That seems also to be the reason why the web form names the share for "peter" data-1.

I think you have the following options to fulfill your needs:
* Introduce two names for the same directory, e.g. "mp3_r" and "mp3_rw"
* Try whether http://dns323.kood.org/howto:bettersamba helps you solving the problem
* Install your own Samba server in a chroot'ed debian using a better Samba software replacing the native one

Bernhard