trying to make a directory that everyone can see copy to and execute files from
 

i have a directory name server i want to copy files to it and have everyone to access it and change and execute a file from it on the workstation (windows 7) what would be the i have the chmod set to 0660 and 771 in the smb.conf file debian 8.5

You mean a public directory in the server?

yes a public that 5 users can use
 

yes and 5 users can execute a setup file in windows with

this is how i have configured
 

the smb.conf file under group share
[server]
comment = all Users
path - /home/shares/server
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes



hope you can help

I would try:

will try that and let you know
 

Thanks Keefaz will try that i have two tax programs that have to get data from the server. hope this works

did not work
 

tried that and it would not let do anything. the other one in this post will let send files but will not let use them i hope this makes sense.

checked permissions for shared dir? Users registered in samba db with smbpasswd?

smb password
 

have not seen a place for password can you give example i have tried the 644 and 755 i have a folder called server that i have files in and can see and map but do not have permission to do anything

You have to give write rights for your users in server directory if you want to allow them to change things into it
Maybe by adding a group (groupadd) in the server for them, add each user to this group (usermod), then change server directory permission to 0775 (chmod) and change its group ownership to the new users group (chgrp)

user grp
 

where does this go ? in the smb.conf file i amd sorry to so dumb this i first debian or linux i have done windows for last 30 + years

Do your 5 users exist in your debian system? If not you have to create them, create a group for them and set the shared server directory permissions so they can write into it

users
 

yes i users created for all 5 users but i don't any place to add a group will read debian again and see if i missed it this may be the problem. i set the passwords again with smbpasswd but it still tells me incorrect password when i try to access from windows.

To create a group, just do: ' groupadd workers '
(where workers is the group name)

To make jimyoung user member of this group: ' usermod -a -G workers jimyoung '

groupadd
 

thanks Keefaz that sounds easy will try that and let you know