[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

[Scott Silva]

on 3-26-2008 6:55 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
> 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
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.



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