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bitpal

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 46

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[SOLVED] can't get write access from windows to samba share

I've been struggling with this for 3 days, searching the forum and howtos with no luck.
I'm trying to get write access to a samba share from my xp laptop. I can browse the share folder from xp, but I can't edit/change/add files.

/etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
   workgroup = HOME
   netbios name = Archie
   security = user
   hosts allow = 192.168.2. 127.
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 50
   wins support = yes
   dns proxy = no 

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   writable = yes

[share]
   comment = Public Share
   path = /share
   guest ok = yes
   public = yes
   browsable = yes
   writable = yes
   read only = no
   create mask = 0777
   directory mask = 0777
   valid users = timm

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes

This is what I've done so far:

>pacman -Syu
>pacman -S samba (installed version 3.0.28)

>adduser timm

I didn't know how to give him a blank password, so I deleted it from /etc/shadow.

>smbpasswd -a timm (with blank password)

On the xp box I have user=Timm with no password.

With the above smb.conf, I can access and browse the share from xp, but still no write access. The /share permissions are:

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-13 13:15 /share

I tried chmod 0777 /share, which only works when samba is stopped, but when it's restarted, permissions on /share revert back to read-only. This is where I'm stuck now. Does this make any sense, or am I missing something super obvious??

Last edited by bitpal (2008-02-13 18:41:24)

bitpal

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 46

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Re: [SOLVED] can't get write access from windows to samba share

OK, so now I learned how to make the chmod file permissions PERMANENT !!

I added umask=0000 to the 4th column in fstab:

/dev/sdb5 /share vfat defaults,umask=0000 0 1

umask subtracts from 0777 and mounts the fs with that.

Now I have full permisssions on the share. YES.