Stormblaze wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:12:12 +0100, shrek-m@xxxxxx <shrek-m@xxxxxx> wrote:
<>Stormblaze wrote: # 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
Where is the output? Did you get nothing when you did this ll? If so, there is nothing there, or only hidden files. Have you set up your samba users with the 'smbpasswd -a username' command?
This will allow only the specified users to connect. You say you cannot write to that dir? If you actually have a dir called /Data, check the owner of the directory. What I had to do on one machine so that multiple users could write to the same files was create a group of those users on the linux (samba) box, and use the 'force group = groupname' option in the smb.conf file.<>valid users = mary fred
Try this: (and substitute user1,user2,user3 for valid usernames on your XP boxes)
groupadd smbppl
edit the /etc/group and /etc/gshadow files and add your user names, separated by commas to the end of the entires for smbppl
(smbppl:x:502:user1,user2,user3)
Change the group ownership of your /Data dir and all it's files:
chown -R root.smbppl /Data
edit your smb.conf file to look like this:
[Data] path = /Data valid users = user1,user2,user3 force group = backup force create mode = 660 create mask = 0775 directory mode = 0775 public = no writable = yes
run 'testparm' to check the syntax restart samba (service smb restart) then try to write to the dir from an XP box
