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Hi,

I have ran 'smbpasswd -a jack' and jack is the windows xp username that i want to have full write access to the share. When i access the share under this user, i have write/read access, but i cannot view all files, for example if i create a file remotly as 'root' it does not show up on the share.

Ideally what i want to do is have complete read/write to this one user on the share under windows. And also allow read only guest access, again to all files on the share. I am really confused as do how i do this. I have not created a system user 'jack' on the linux host, I simply ran smbpasswd.

So if someone could tell me what file system permissions i need, and what samba umasks e.t.c are required, for a specific user to have full access and everyone else read only guest access that would be great.

This is my samba config:

Code:

[global]

        workgroup = MYGROUP

        server string = TStorage - Samba Server

        security = SHARE

        log level = 4

        log file = /var/log/samba.%m

        max log size = 50

        server signing = auto

        preferred master = No

        domain master = No

        dns proxy = No

        ldap ssl = no

        read only = No

        case sensitive = No

        msdfs proxy = no



[drive_2]

        comment = HDD [SATA2]

        path = /mnt/media2

        create mask = 0755

        hide special files = Yes

        hide unreadable = Yes

        hide unwriteable files = Yes

Thanks very much for any help.
Jack