I am running samba on debian 3.1 unstable. I can copy files from my linux box to my windows box with no problem. But, I can not copy files from windows to linux.

I am sure it's something simple.

I am not sure I understand here,

do you try to copy from windows to linux using windows ? if yes, there is tools to mount linux partition on to a windows, but it is not safe to write, I personally use winscp to write from windows to linux, it use ssh and is very safe (windows gui version of scp)

reup

You need to mount windows share using samba tools like smb mount. Check out this page http://linuxgazette.net/issue19/micro.html .

But, I can not copy files from windows to linux.

If you are trying to use the windows machine to copy to the linux box, do you have file sharing enabled for the users home folder? Does the share have write permissions to the /home folder? Samba needs to be running too.

Post you smb.conf file. Not the whole thing, just the relevant parts.

It does not matter what file system the machine has if you are trying to write to it over the network. But having write permissions does.

>do you have file sharing enabled for the users home folder?

not sure.

>Does the share have write permissions to the /home folder?

yes.

>Samba needs to be running too.

Samba is running.

smb.conf:

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next
# parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them.
writable = no

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0700

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/samba/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; writable = no
; share modes = no

Try changing that to yes. Cheers