Fricken Samba.... Need to share R/W a subdirectory under /home/user

arfon · 09-27-2016, 07:48 AM

I have Win 7, 8 and 10 boxes that I need to connect via samba to a linux box.

On the linux box:
USER:bob (only bob and root accounts on this box)
SHARED DIRECTORY: /home/bob/shareddocs

On the Windows 7 box:
USER: fred (only fred and admin user accounts on this box)

On the Windows 10 box:
USER: jerry (only jerry and admin user accounts on this box)

I have got samba to the point of the windows boxes seeing the server but, I can't get the permissions correct to access the shared directory.

Can someone please share their working Share Definitions?

IsaacKuo · 09-27-2016, 09:04 AM

Relevant sections from my /etc/samba/smb.conf

Code:

   unix password sync = no
[...]
[DEED]
path = /home/kuo/deed
writable = no
[TRANSFER]
path = /home/kuo/tempo/transfer
writable = yes

I have two samba shares - one is read only, and one is read-write.

In addition to creating those very simple modifications to smb.conf, I also had to manually add one user to samba users with:

Code:

smbpasswd -a kuo

Note that you can list the samba users with:

Code:

pdbedit -w -L

I did things this way to minimize my effort and headaches. When connecting to the share, the end user must enter the user and password ("kuo" is the user, the password is what I entered and I purposefully do NOT sync it with the *nix password).

If you want to do fancier authentication, you'll have to do fancier configuration.

My recommendation, though, is to create a new linux user and do "smbpasswd -a NEWUSERID" to add it (only) to smb users. Unless you're okay with sharing bob's samba password with everyone (remember that if you do NOT sync the samba passwords with the *nix passwords, they can be different).