Samba Setup
 

I've setup samba and am able to map a drive from my xp machine. Everything works fine except the everything is read only. 1. How can I give only one user read/write privledges - me(admin currently the only user on the Linux box). I want to use the server as a backup in case my school server does down.

Thanks

jbraum

You can use "read list" and "write list" in the share definition to list who can read and who can write. Read more here <<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...html#id2539154>>.

Be sure you have allowed permissions on the actual directory that is being shared.

Re: Samba Setup
 

I had this problem too but it was remedied by changing the directory to permissions to 777. Then I was able to create directorys beneath it, delete files, etc. (From another computer on the lan).

For me this command did it:
chmod 777 /var/spool/samba

Run ls -all before the chmod command. Perms will say dr-xr-xr-x or something like that then after the command it will say drwxdrwxdrwx

Here's an example:
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 2003 samba

Yikes.. I wonder what the t is for..