Samba permissions problem

mago · 12-22-2005, 02:17 PM

Ok this one is either really simple or very complicated.

Here is the deal I have some mp3s and some videos on my machine (Running Slackware 10.2 and samba 3.0.20b.

Here is the extract of the smb.conf about the directoreies

Code:

[music]
        path= /stuff/music
        public=yes
        writable=no
        browsable=yes
        create mask=0744

[videos]
        path= /home/mago/ad
        public=yes
        writable=no
        browsable=yes
        create mask=0744

This is what the ls -l shows with those two directories:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  19 mago users   624 2005-06-15 12:07 music

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  2 mago users 4.0K 2005-12-22 13:17 ad

OK Mago is obviously the owner, now I have two users added to smbpasswd that belong to users as well but they cannot access the videos, not even browse the directory. The weird thing is that they have no problem with the music.

Can someone help me out here?, as far as I checked everything is the same.

Thanks a bunch

Matir · 12-22-2005, 02:48 PM

Perhaps its a question of them not having read permissions on /home/mago? I should think samba would go directly to the right entry, but you never know.

mago · 12-22-2005, 03:20 PM

I actually cheched that as well but just for the sake of it I

Code:

chown -R mago.users /home/mago

, and still nothing, I did

Code:

chmod -R 555 /home/mago

as well and nothing.

centauricw · 12-22-2005, 10:19 PM

On the [videos] share, try adding "force user = mago". This will force Samba to access the files and directories for this share as user mago. They should be able to see everything but won't be able to change anything since you have "writable = no".

gilead · 12-23-2005, 02:14 PM

If that doesn't work - can you try copying the files to another location like /usr/local/music? The /home directories have very restrictive permissions by default. At the moment I can create a directory under my /home/steve directory and give it permissions of 0777 but other users cannot perform an ls on the directory or its contents.

If you move the music and video files to somewhere with less restrictive permissions you can also create a symlink to that location from your home directory so you can still get to it easily.

Matir · 12-23-2005, 02:27 PM

Permissions of 0777 should allow anyone to access it... That's very odd. I agree, however, with your suggestion of relocating the storage.

flashingcurser · 12-23-2005, 02:54 PM

edit: Lemme review this again.

dan

timdalr · 12-24-2005, 12:18 PM

Can your samba server see it's own services? Try

Code:

smbclient -L localhost -U%

hopefully you should see videos and music. Try it and post details of output and will try and determine where to go next.