Scott Silva wrote: > 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. <snip> >> >> >> 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. Thank you, Scott. I'd actually done that a little while ago but hadn't returned to the list since then. Your point is well taken and also well documented (at least when I got to that part :) Kind regards, -Ray