[K12OSN] Samba Question

[Shawn Powers]

I know, this isn't a samba list -- but you folks are "in the trenches" 
with me...  Feel free to reply off-list so as not to pollute the email 
boxes of all those folks that don't care about samba...

I have a windows app that uses a fox-pro database.  I need to have a 
group of users be able to read/write/change/delete the files on a samba 
share.  For some reason, no matter how I set up the samba share, I seem 
to get "access denied" while performing certain actions.  (Especially 
reindexing, upgrading tables, and writing over top of existing files)

Could someone point me to a "how to get foxpro programs to like samba" 
type tutorial, or a sample smb.conf file that will help me?  Right now, 
I had to copy the database folder to a workstation, and use windows 
filesharing to share the data to everyone else.  TERRIBLE solution, but 
it works for now.  I refuse to believe that windows filesharing can do 
what samba can not. :)

There are many file-locking options, like "op-locks" "fake op-locks" 
etc, that I just don't understand.  I know on the linux side, the files 
are created properly, and the users *should* have permission to 
change/delete/etc -- but somehow my smb.conf file doesn't let it work.

I'd paste the appropriate part of my smb.conf file here -- but it's 
changed so many times, that I'd almost rather a fresh outlook on how to 
set up the share.  None of the file-locking options I've tried work. :)

Thanks a bunch, and sorry again for posting a non LTSP question...

-Shawn



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