I few weeks back my server started having a problem where all shares are now readonly. AFAIK nothing has changed except a 'yum update' which was probably around the same time. Everyone still has the shares on their Win7 PC's and can see the contents. However, if they try to open a file it opens read only. If the try to create a new file (e.g. right click -> New -> Text Document) it says that they don't have permission. I am not seeing anything meaningful in the log files. Can anyone give me a clue how to fix this, or at least how to collect getting debug info? SELinux has been disabled to eliminate that. Gary Global parameters [global] netbios name = ZEPPO2 server string = Ringways Doncaster Showroom Server workgroup = MOTORPARK os level = 33 preferred master = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 guest account = gary security = USER username map = /etc/samba/smbusers wins proxy = Yes wins server = 10.1.1.101 idmap config * : backend = tdb cups options = raw hosts allow = 127. 10. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = No printable = Yes guest ok = Yes [tmp] comment = Temporary work area path = /user/remote/tmp guest ok = Yes read only = No [goodwill] comment = Good will documents path = /user/remote/goodwill force user = gary guest ok = Yes read only = No valid users = gary [service] comment = Temporary work area path = /user/remote/service force user = gary read only = No valid users = gary write list = gary [sales_doc] comment = Sales D.O.C. spreadsheets path = /user/remote/sales_doc force user = gary guest ok = Yes read only = No valid users = gary [root at zeppo ~]# smbstatus Samba version 4.4.4 PID Username Group Machine Protocol Version Encryption Signing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2552 gary gary 10.6.103.236 (ipv4:10.6.103.236:50445) SMB2_10 - - Service pid Machine Connected at Encryption Signing --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tmp 2552 10.6.103.236 Thu May 4 14:05:23 2017 BST - - Locked files: Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2552 1000 DENY_ALL 0x100080 RDONLY NONE /user/remote/tmp . Thu May 4 14:05:23 2017 2552 1000 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /user/remote/tmp . Thu May 4 14:05:39 2017 [root at zeppo ~]# ls -ld / /user /user/remote/ /user/remote/tmp/ /user/remote/service/ dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4096 May 4 13:59 / drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 34 Nov 7 2013 /user drwxr-xr-x. 22 gary gary 4096 Jun 2 2016 /user/remote/ drwxr-xr-x. 6 gary gary 4096 Apr 19 08:32 /user/remote/service/ drwxr-xr-x. 8 gary gary 4096 Feb 23 17:26 /user/remote/tmp/ [root at zeppo ~]#