Samba Permissions

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Stormblaze wrote:

>Ok, Samba is up and running. I can see the share I set up. However, I
>can not write to it. What I'd like to have is for the default to be
>read only and allow only certain users to write to it. So I set the
>read only property to yes then I supplied users for write and admin
>previledges. I log into my XP box as administrator and map to the
>share but I still can't write to it.
>
>I tried turning the read only setting off and still could not write to
>it. Any help? Here's my current smb.conf.
>
># Samba config file created using SWAT
># from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
># Date: 2004/11/11 09:35:39
>
># Global parameters
>[global]
>	server string = Linux Server
>	interfaces = eth1
>	security = SHARE
>	preferred master = Yes
>	ldap ssl = no
>
>[Data]
>	path = /Data
>	admin users = root, admin, administrator
>	write list = root, admin, administrator
>	guest ok = Yes
>  
>

# ll /Data


$ man smb.conf


writable = yes
or
writeable = yes
both should be ok.

valid users = mary fred

check your settings with
# testparm


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shrek-m