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jackuess

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Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 6

Anonymous Samba

I'm trying to set up Samba for sharing some media files with my xbox (xbmc), and to some extent the Windows boxes in the house. I want to enable a guest account so that no password is required for browsing and reading the files. My smb.conf is as follows:

[global]
   workgroup = DE_LAVAL
   netbios name = chucky-desktop
   server string = Chucky desktop Sercer
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 50
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   local master = no
   dns proxy = no
   security = share
   guest account = nobody
   map to guest = bad user

[media]
   path = /home/chucky/media
   browsable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = yes

[test]
   path=/home/chucky/bilder
   browsable = yes
   read only  = yes
   guest ok = yes

Whenever I try to access the shares I get "permission denied". I look in the log file, and it states that permission was denied... I've added the nobody account to samba.
What puzzles me most is that when I try to reach the "test" share from my local machine, logged in as the owner of the given path I also get "permission denied".

What have I overlooked?

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: Anonymous Samba

Check the filepermissions on the directories you're trying to share.

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jackuess

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Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 6

Re: Anonymous Samba

I've added the nobody user to the "users" group, which is the group of the second share ([test]). Shouldn't that be enough? I still can't access it.

jofa

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Registered: 2006-10-27

Posts: 32

Re: Anonymous Samba

I'm having the same problem. Even trying to get access from my Xbox
I've done this type of sharing for years now, but since the last Arch install I can't get it working.
Is it something that's changed in the Samba package?
Have you solved this and in that case how? Thanks.

bitpal

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 46

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Re: Anonymous Samba

I've got it working, at least as far as read-only access from Windows.

My /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
    workgroup = HOME
    server string = Samba Server
    security = SHARE
    passdb backend = tdbsam
    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
    max log size = 50
    dns proxy = No
    wins support = Yes
    hosts allow = 192.168.2., 127.

[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    read only = No
    browseable = No

[share]
    comment = Public Share
    path = /share
    read only = No
    create mask = 0666
    directory mask = 0777
    guest ok = Yes

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printable = Yes
    browseable = No

I did

chmod 0777 /share

to give full access to the share.

So I can see the files from Windows XP, but I don't have write access.

Can anyone give me pointers on getting write permissions from the Windows box?

faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 232

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Re: Anonymous Samba

Maybe :

writable = yes

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