samba share denies permission to random files while copying

joh42231 · 02-28-2009, 05:18 AM

Hi

I have home server on CentOS 5.2 with Samba 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 for sharing files on my network (WinXP and Ubuntu).

I have r/w permission to home share, I can create directory and copy files to the share, the problem is when I copy a whole directory from my Ubuntu box I get the following error (from Nautilus):

The folder "xxxxxx" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to create it in the destination.

Even tough I have permission and I can create it, just doesn't happen when copying.

The same thing happens when I copy to /public share where "only guest = yes", and all files are owned by nobody. I don't think the problem is with the CentOS because if I do the same thing from a WinXP everything works fine.

this is how I have my shares defined:

Code:

	security = user
	passdb backend = tdbsam

[homes]
	comment = Home Directories
	browseable = yes
	writable = yes
	valid users = %S

[public]
	comment = Public Stuff
	path = /home/public
	public = yes
	writable = yes
	only guest = yes

my /etc/fstab on Ubuntu:

Code:

//192.168.0.1/public	/media/atompublic	smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials3,uid=1000,rw 0 0
//192.168.0.1/ziga	/media/atomziga		smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials3,uid=ziga,gid=ziga,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,rw 0 0

thx for the help

chitambira · 03-02-2009, 07:29 AM

Are you running winbindd ? If you are the username is actually DOMAIN\user which won't match. You would need to do something like 'valid users = %D+%S'.

f you decide to use a path = line in your [homes] section, it may be useful to use the %S macro. For example:

path = /home/%S

is useful if you have different home directories for your PCs than for UNIX access.

This is a fast and simple way to give a large number of clients access to their home directories with a minimum of fuss.

A similar process occurs if the requested section name is “homes”, except that the share name is not changed to that of the requesting user. This method of using the [homes] section works well if different users share a client PC.