Individual user permissions not working

[ZorgonIV (Mitchell Vackar)]

I am trying to set samba shares to only be accessible from single users but I can access them without a password in Windows. How do I make it so only the intended user can access the share and has to enter their password? I am doing this via WORKGROUP, not AD.

[Hooverdan (Dan W.)]

@ZorgonIV welcome to the Rockstor community.

Take a look at a similar thread in this space:

SAMBA Share Issues

Rockstor and I seem to be having issues of late I am trying to create share folders, to be accessed from Windows (Samba) that have individual user access. I want my wife to be able to log access her folder, but not the kids type deal. So, I went in and created a test share [share] From there, I created the Samba Export [samba_1] [samba_2] I go to Windows Explorer, enter the IP address 10.0.0.3 and get a list of folders [samba_3] I double click my test folder (test_samba) and it asks f…

There are some Windows peculiarities on how/when credentials are cached, and also on how you set up the user/group/other authorizations on the share, as well as whether anonymous access is allowed or not.