SAMBA and Shared Folder between Linux and Vista.

[Ngm_neco]

Hello, I'm a newby, in linux.
My problem is that I want to share a folder in Linux ansd make it writable from windows (vista home premium).

The folder in particular is : /var/www
yes the apache docuemt root.

Is a home network, and I want to remotely copy and install web applications, from my vista box.

I allready share the folder with samba and I can see and browse the folder, but when I try to create a file the system tell me that I have access dennied.

This is what I did:
>create a user in Linux. (adduser...)
>create a user in samba (smbpasswd -L -a ...)
>restart samba
> in windows go to \\linux\wwwroot
i see the folder and the contente but I can't create anthing

My linux is a Knoppix installed to the hard drive.
I think that is debian based.
the samba version is: Samba version 3.0.5-Debian

this is part of the smb.conf

[global]

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
   printing = cups
   printcap name = cups
   load printers = yes
   guest account = nobody
   invalid users = root

; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
;       in this server for every user accessing the server.
   security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP

   server string = %h server (Samba %v)

...
[wwwroot]
        comment = Root del WebServer
        path    = /var/www
        browseable      = yes
        guest ok        = yes
        write list      = root nmachado nico
        force user      = www-data
        force group     = www-data

And the permition sets are:

root@linux:~# ls -l /var
total 56
...
drwxrwxr-x   3 root     root     4096 2003-10-03 19:37 www
...

I don't know where the problem is :
I have to change owner of www ?
where I have to change to let the user in write list to write to the folder ?

Best Regards
Nicolas

[coopstah13]

you have the folder permission at 775 which is owner,group write permitted, not user, either chown to a different user group, owner, both, or chmod 777

[Ngm_neco]

Thanks coopstah13, but what must I do If I want to be able to write with the user I map the drive in windows ?
I created a user called "nico" in linux and samba.

I mean without giving writing access to the "user permision".

Do I have to add the user in the group "root" ?
How do I do that, with a terminal .

Best Regards and Happy new year.