On 11/06/2014 01:47 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/6/2014 1:05 PM, Mike Watson wrote: >> I have an established server initially created with CentOS 6.5 and >> updated weekly. Last week there was a massive update that I believe >> upgraded my server to 6.6. >> >> I had a number of issues after the upgrade---like my firewall being >> turned on and blocking all inbound ports. (I have an external firewall.) >> I've fixed all the issues created by this upgrade except for one. >> >> I have a number of samba shares on this server used by some WinXP boxes >> on my network and two other linux (Fedora) workstations. Since the >> upgrade, guest/nobody write access no longer works. The smb.conf file is >> unchanged. >> >> The config file below has been unchanged since my initial installation. >> Anyone know how I can restore guest write access? Guest can read, but >> not write to the share. > > I don't see anything obvious. The first thing I would do is to take a > look at 'smbstatus' while a guest user is logged on and make sure it > is connecting as the user you expect. > It is. Samba version 3.6.23-12.el6 PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- <processes do not show up in anonymous mode> Service pid machine Connected at ------------------------------------------------------- Stuff 16177 remington Thu Nov 6 15:21:12 2014 Var 16177 remington Thu Nov 6 15:21:56 2014 Locked files: Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16177 99 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /home/stuff . Thu Nov 6 15:21:25 2014 mw