Cant create a folder in samba folder due to pemission

[ndaka123488]

Hi all.

I am running Federa 8. I have samba users on my network and have samba folders created. I have created the following in the smb.conf file.


[usr]
comment = users
path = / usr
security mask=0770
create director=0770
create mask=0755
writtable = yes
browsable = yes


My problem is, i cannot create a new folder in this usr folder, it says access denied. My persmission looks like this

drwxrwsrwx root root usr

Why cant samba users write to this folder. I want all the samba users to write to this folder.

Please help?

[bigcrab]

Hi all.

I am running Federa 8. I have samba users on my network and have samba folders created. I have created the following in the smb.conf file.


[usr]
comment = users
path = / usr
security mask=0770
create director=0770
create mask=0755
writtable = yes
browsable = yes


My problem is, i cannot create a new folder in this usr folder, it says access denied. My persmission looks like this

drwxrwsrwx root root usr

Why cant samba users write to this folder. I want all the samba users to write to this folder.

Please help?

check /etc/samba/smbusers.

[aazkan]

Hi,

I'm just curious why would you want your users to write in /usr? Isn't it root owend?

[ndaka123488]

in the etc/samba/smbuser file there is currently only two users, root and administrator

Can I change that smbuser file?

Should I add all the samba users to that file?

[ndaka123488]

I am actually trying to change usr1 sorry, Wen I try and create a folder in usr1 (shared) it says, i dont not have permissions to do that. Why?

smb.conf is perfectly configured
usr1/ has 755 permissions on it.

Im not sure about the group/ owner of my samba users and that were my problem is.

Help

[atreyu]

you have "writtable" in your smb.conf, is that a typo? It should be "writable"...

there is also a space in your path, "/ usr" - there should be no space, also as someone mentioned, you're not *really* sharing /usr, right?

There are other ways to do this, but I would also explicitly add a 'valid users = ' line to your usr share, containing the name of a samba user you've set up, e.g.:

smbpasswd -a YourSmbUser

Then in your defined user share, you'd have something like:

[usr]
  comment = whatever
  path = wherever
  writable = yes
  valid users = YourSmbUser

If you're using user auth, then I believe the samba user has to exist as a system user, too (i.e., in /etc/passwd).

EDIT: and chown the /usr1 or whatever directory to be owned by the YourSmbUser user/group.