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Old 05-17-2004, 12:31 AM   #1
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Post Writing to a shared home folder


I recently upgraded the only LINUX PC on our small office LAN from MDK9.x > MDK10 upgrade, which also updated SAMBA 2.x > SAMBA 3.x - the other four PCs are all WinXP.

Althought the upgrade trashed my previous SAMBA configuration, generally everything has been restored and seems fine now. Except I can't work out what is needed to write to a specific users shared directory in /home/

By example, in smb. conf I have

[SOMEUSER]
path = /home/someuser/Documents
comment = Some User's Documents
read only = no
guest ok = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.0
browseable = yes
available = yes

The directory /home/someuser/Documents has been set permissions for sharing and to allow read/write

Among other things I have tried

[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
security = SHARE

and

[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
security = USER

No matter. While I can log in OK from another PC on the LAN, I get READ ONLY permissions.

I've obviously missed something, but be buggered if I can get my head around it.

Any help out there?

TIA
 
Old 05-17-2004, 03:21 AM   #2
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check the file and directory permissions.
 
Old 05-17-2004, 06:58 AM   #3
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Quote:
Originally posted by ppuru
check the file and directory permissions.
That's the problem- they are definitely read/write.

Using Konqueror's Properties dialog:

I have

*set Owner, Group & others can "View & Modify" on the "Permissions" tab
*set "Local Net Sharing" = Shared
*"Samba" "shared" = true, Read Only is false, Browseable & Available both are true.

You can sense my frustration, but I reckon the explanation is something simple.


Would I need to be root or "su" to set these permissions?




Thanks
 
Old 05-17-2004, 07:18 AM   #4
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tray adding

valid users = user1,user2

to your share definition..
 
Old 05-17-2004, 07:44 AM   #5
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tray adding valid users = user1,user2
to your share definition..
Yes, that was done too. The owner + a guest account. When "security = USER", access from an XP machine prompts for a password for the user. A correct password, as defined in smbpasswd, allows one to view the directory (read only).

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Old 05-18-2004, 06:50 AM   #6
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try changing the home directory perms to

drwx---r-x for the /home/someuser directory from

drwx------
 
  


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