Samba - folder permissions, owners - I don't understand why this is not working

booga · 05-09-2006, 02:45 AM

Distro is Slack 10

I create a folder called test3

set permissions

Quote:

chmod 771 /home/test3

I add the following lines to smb.conf

Quote:

[test]
path = /home/test3
public = yes
browseable = no
only guest = yes
writable = yes
printable = no

CHOWN folder (staff is a group that I created)

Quote:

chown existing_user:staff /home/test3

smbpasswd contains the login info used by the Win XP machine trying to access the shared folder

restart SAMBA

Quote:

/etc/rc.d/rc.samba

I get access denied trying to connect to the folder. from what I posted above, it follows what I understand about samba.

What did I miss???

I am trying to limit access so that contents of this folder from an account not in STAFF

yull · 05-09-2006, 03:23 AM

maybe by adding this kind of rules to smb.conf

Quote:

[my share]
...
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775

there you can specify the grants to use when accessing a shared folder.

I'm not sure the

Quote:

only guest = yes

is a good idea.

booga · 05-11-2006, 09:51 PM

Thank you!