Scott Silva wrote:
I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that way). At present, the home share and one for the company's public share are in place.
I can see the server, browsing from WinXP to \172.16.0.106, but permissions seem amiss. I should be able to read/write to a given share but it seems to be ro.
Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.
My simple smb.conf file is here:
[global] netbios name = BACKUP socket options = TCP_NODELAY force directory mode = 777 unix password sync = yes workgroup = WORKGROUP force create mode = 777 os level = 20 encrypt passwords = yes security = share public = yes passdb backend = smbpasswd directory mode = 777
[homes] writeable = yes public = yes path = /home
[company data] comment = company data writeable = yes create mode = 775 path = /home/share1
Thanks in advance, -Ray
If you are going to use smb passwords anyway, why set security to "share? You should set security to "user" and make sure you keep unix users and samba users synced. For public shares you can set a shared user and group, and make shared directories keep those perms.
The problem is that all these shares are set as 'public' so you'll connect as a guest user - which I don't see defined - and unless the unix file system is writable by the guest you'll only have read access.
With user level security you can't connect to different shares as different users, so if you remove the 'public' from the home section (as you probably should) and let people connect as themselves, they will have to also connect as themselves to the public shares.