Hi All. I needs a little help with a the first ever samba share I am creating.

I have a share called public which has permissions 755 and the main user is administrator and a group called staff
2064405 drwxrwsr-x 3 administrator staff 4096 Jul 7 15:44 everyone

Now the administrator can write fine and anyone in the staff group can view but can create files. I did try 777 but then everyone could write and not just the users in the staff group. I will paste the part from smb.con below. Just need some advise for a beginner what I need to be doing. Thanks

# A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
# the "staff" group
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/everyone
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = staff

I think you need to modify the 'write list' option.

The way you have it coded, 'staff' will be interpreted as a user. Here is what it shows in the samba doc.

So, try @staff, that should treat the staff as the group you intend.

Hope this helps.

Many thanks for the fast response. I have tried this but it did not work. I am guessing it's a problem folder permissions but not sure I what I should be doing to sort it.

Did you restart the samba server after the config modifications? They won't have any effect until you do.

Any error messages?

Managed to find the issue. Even though I had added users to the the group, when I used nano they were not there. Added them with nano and problem resolved.

Thanks for the help

Good stuff... it is all to easy to miss a small step. Been there, done that.