On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > At the end of my smb.conf file I have:- > > [Scans] > comment = Digikam scans for chrisx > path = /home/chrisx/pictures/Scans > writeable = yes > force user = chrisx > > [xpIsbd] > comment = ISBD on XP > path = /home/isbd/xpIsbd > writeable = yes > force user = isbd > > I thought this would mean that when I connect to these shares from my > XP machine (on which I am user chris) any files and/or directories I > create there would be created as users chrisx and isbd respectively. > > However it's not working, I can connect to the shares without any > problem but files/directories are always created with owner chris. > > What am I doing wrong? > > (This is samba 3.0.28a on Fedora 8) > I have just realised what I was doing wrong! I was accessing the shares as \\home\chrisx/pictures/Scans from my XP machine and that (of course!) was accessing them via the default [homes] share in smb.conf. If I access the shares as \\home\xpIsbd and \\home\Scans then everything works as expected. Grrrrrr!!! It's taken me hours to realise this! -- Chris Green
