[SOLVED] Samba config can read both directions but not write both directions

Good day everyone,

I have configured Samba and it works wonderfully from moving files from windows to Linux, however, I cannot get it to write from Linux to Windows. I have uploaded a sanitized version of my smb.conf (named smb.txt). I'm currently running Samba 3.6 on RHEL 6 (unfortunately, my licensing has expired and in the middle of getting it purchased) in a VmWare VM. I'm not running selinux. I'm having the following issues:

1. Cannot write to windows from linux
2. Cannot get the permissions correct. All attempts at changing them from 755 to 775 have failed.

I have been working on this for over a week and have had no luck at all. Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,
lhiggie

I have bigger issues, attempted to run the command:

smbclient -L servername

Connection to servername failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

Any ideas on this one?

O.k., I have found a couple of things I did wrong at the outset. I misread the smb.conf file and now see that a semicolon is just like a #. Therefore, I have removed the ; as follows:

...
netbios name = SAMBA1
# Changed the interface to the IP address - LH
interfaces = lo eth0 192.163.20.65/24
...
# security = domain
security = ads
passdb backend = tdbsam
# realm = MY_REALM
realm = ABC.PVT
...

And:

[lhiggie@servername ~]$ smbclient -L windowsservername
Enter lhiggie's password:
Domain=[ABC] OS=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
Archive Disk
C$ Disk Default share
D$ Disk Default share
F$ Disk Default share
FileTransShare Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
Domain=[ABC] OS=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
[lhiggie@servername ~]$

So, I'm getting one step closer.

Thanks to all that replied!

I have it fixed and this is how I did it:

As per the Using Samba 3rd Edition that I had to purchase to get the fix from pages 306 - 309.

1. I created a file in the /root directory named .cifsrc with the following parameters:

username=zoe
password=FY23d^g

2. I then used the following command to mount the share:

mount -t cifs //fox/public /cifs/public -o cred=$HOME/.cifsrc,uid=aoe,gid=users

I can now read and write both ways.