[CentOS] new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

Ray Leventhal

centos at swhi.net
Wed Mar 26 13:55:01 UTC 2008


Hi all,

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



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