Samba permissions
 

Hi

I recently moved data over from one server to another using scp

command : scp -r root@blah.blah /blah .

it copied all the files over , i recreated the samba shares.

Problem is now , some of the directories users are getting "permission denied" errors.

security = share in my smb.conf file (basically I cloned the whole smb.conf file from the old server! noted:obviously changed server name etc).ownership is also set to nobody:nobody

is there something i'm missing , not doing right?

losing alot of hair over this , please help!

djt

do you mean some directories under shares? or some shares are now "perm denied"?

Must be directory permissions if the samba config has not changed, but my security = users so there might be something "security = share" specific.

post your smb.conf

And your directory permissions and the line your using to mount it.

ok , here's the shares section of my smb.conf file

[Docs]
comment = Documents
path = /data/documents
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0775
directory mode = 0770
printable = no

that basically is the conf I use for all my shares

security is also set to share (not user)

I changed all the dir permissions:

chmod -R a+rwx,g+rx,o+rx

The really weird thing is , I can create a directory on the share , but only I can access it , but another user can actually delete that dir??!!!?? really odd....

Please help (management is jumping on me)

Hope this sheds more light....

Ta

...its a bit hard to imagine your condition...
however, what permission do you have in your Docs shared directory?
is it 777?

Dude, you should be reading the smb.conf man page for this, it's really good, but anyway...

The things you need to check:
/data/documents/
My understanding is that these files are owned by nobody. when a user creates a file it is nobody:nogroup 0775. and a dir is 0770. If everyone was connecting as nobody then you would not have a problem. But I dont think they are, I think that your setup is specifying that users write files as nobody:nogroup but they are still connecting as themselves which is why your permissions are screwed.

How is smb.conf dealing with usernames? post the entire file, without the shares section.