At the moment I'm unable to write to any of my Samba shares from my windows box, despite the fact all of them have 0777 permissions and are set to writeable in smb.conf. I'm guessing this has something to do with group permissions, but I'm not sure. Here's a copy of my smb.conf file:

workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = Xbox
encrypt passwords = yes
unix password sync = yes
null passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

[homes]
read only = yes
browseable = no
public = no

[music]
path = /data/music
browseable = yes
public = yes
read only = no
writeable = yes
valid users = iggy administrator root
create mask = 0777
force create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Some questions to help us:

Have you added the users to Samba with the command smbpasswd -a username ?

Can you see the shares from the Win box?

What are the users and groups of the shared folders (ls -a /data/music)

Also, if you use unix password sync = true, you will have to specify which program to use to change users password and parameteres to pass to the program... So dont use this parameter unless you really know what you are doing...

Hope this will help..

1. Did u added root login to samba ?

smbpasswd -a -e root
-a is for adding.
-e is for enabling them.

Restart samba service.

2. What is login you are doing at XP box ?
Any one out of them >> iggy administrator root ?? or something else ?


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