Good day all

I am hoping that someone can assist me here and it will be greatly appreciated.

I am busy assisting a client who need to receive files from clients using sftp.

We have everything setup in order to sftp to the linux server.

However the files needs to be placed on a windows share.

What I was hoping to do it to setup the users on linux with sftp acess, mount the windows share within linux using cifs and then allow the different users to place files on the mounted share.

the windows share is mounted under /mnt/share

Linux user as example: cifstest with home directory /home/cifstest

There is then a symboliclink called cifstest that points to /mnt/share/cifstest

I am however struggling with the permissions issues as I am new to sftp.

When I test the setup, I am able to log into the linux machine using sftp and I can then use cd to change to the symbolic link directory.

However, as soon as I try to upload a file I get the following message:

Couldn't get handle: Permission denied

I am sure I am doing something wrong here but to give you an idea on what we need to achieve.


1. there will be different clients that need to upload files daily
2. each need their own login details and uploads need to be done via sftp.
3. clients need to sftp to the linux machine and the files that are uploaded should be stored on the windows share for processing by the windows server.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as this needs to be up and running by tomorrow.


Regards
Machiel

Hi,

if you get a permission denied you should check the permissions of the final directory...
Is the final user able to read/write on that?
Try to give the output of the /mnt/share/cifstest directory:

and the details on the user cifstest:

If you want give to more than one user the write grants on that directory you should:

> create a new group (groupadd [your_new_grp])
> add that group to all your users (that need to write on that directory...;-)) (usermod -a -G [your_new_grp] [your_sftp_user])
> profile correctly the the grants of the destionation directory

Last, can you write on the windows machine???
Hope this helps...

Hi MCD555

I have tried setting the permissions and groups for the folders, however as soon as I mount the cifs share the local permissions change to rwxr-xr-x even if the shares on the windows side is set to even give full permissions to everyone.



Regards
Machiel

What about your fstab settings (what is specified in your /etc/fstab)?
How it is mounted that fs?

Hi MCD555

I have actually just found a solution.

For those who might be interested in future...

We obviously created a seperate login and folder for each client.

So what I had to do is when I mounted the cifs share on the linux side, I had to specify the uid and gid options with the linux username and group names for the clients.

This mounted the shares with that clients' privileges and everything is now working 100%...

Thank you anyway for the assistance.

Regards
Machiel

Great, you're welcome!
Remember to put this thread solved...
Regards