[SOLVED] Setting up Samba for access from Windows 7

andrewdazotus · 07-23-2013, 04:58 PM

Hi,

I've set up two directories like this:

Code:

drwxrwxr-x 2 root admin 4096 Jul 23 18:14 [R]
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 18:13 [S]

and the smb.conf file thus:

Code:

[Read-Only]
  comments = Read Only Space - Software packages etc.
  path = /[Drvs]/[R]
  browseable = yes
  public = yes
#  read only = yes
  writeable = yes
  write list = @admin
  create mask = 0660
  directory mask = 0775

[Share]
  comments = Share - All Read Write Access
  path = /[Drvs]/[S]
  browseable = yes
  public = yes
  writeable = yes
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777

then allocate share to S:\ and Read-Only to R:\

then all users get r/w access to S:\ and read only access to R:\ unless the user is a member of the admin group

the server is called Srvr and the workgroup in smb.conf is First

there is no domain but I'm running Win-7 pro so it calls the domain M009 (It's my ninth laptop)

I've tried connecting as M009\andrew, Srvr\andrew and First\andrew but I still do not get write access.

what am I missing?

oh, andrew is part of the admin group

using windows for many years, three months exp on Linux

Andrew

mlslk31 · 07-23-2013, 05:56 PM

Beats me. I don't even know what version of Samba you're using. BTW, I hope that your smb.conf has a [global] section as well. You might need to add some settings there, too, maybe not. The testparm program can validate your smb.conf file and report what it thinks you have.

In Samba 3, it's best to use the smbpasswd program to add users and possibly machines (for domain trust on domains) to the network. In Samba 3, you need the Unix users that correspond to the Samba users, but Samba takes its password from a separate database.

On the Linux box, you can use the smbclient program to test things as well. Something like `smbclient -U andrew //server/share` might be a good start, `smbclient -L //server` to list the basics if that doesn't work.

andrewdazotus · 07-23-2013, 06:24 PM

Sorry, It is Samba3, installed it fresh on Debian this afternoon. I just used apt-get install samba, I didn't even look for other versions

it was the smbpasswd.

I ran smbpasswd -a andrew and it all works now with:

write list = andrew

many thanks.

and I think it's working with write list = @admin too.

mlslk31 · 07-23-2013, 07:34 PM

I'm sure you'll work out any kinks over time. Note that Samba and Linux work together, and some things having to do with permissions can be done better and quicker with Unix permissions (chmod, chown, setfacl, usermod, groupmod, etc.) than with settings in smb.conf. Should everything be set up correctly, Samba can also make use of POSIX ACLs in Linux filesystems and use them to represent Windows ACLs on the network.

If nothing else, note that "public = yes" is for things that you truly mean to be public, or for a resource that Windows won't touch unless it can be used without using a password. For the sake of easy network browsing from Windows and ordinary shares, it's more important for things to be browseable than to be public.