Samba Users: We have a very perplexing problem at a client's location. The problem is simply that we cannot copy files from a PII-450 station to a Linux Server running Samba. The station can write to other network Win95 clients just fine. The station can read from the Linux Server just fine, just cannot write via Samba. The card installed in the station is a NetGear FA310TX with the latest drivers retrieved from the NetGear WWW site. We have tried many options, but none have worked. We have already tried the following, but to no avail: * apply all TCP/IP, Winsock, and Win95 networking updates from Microsoft's site * upgraded to Win98 * removing and completely reinstalling the OS - Win95 * tried different network connections * tried different IP addresses * different login ID's * different hub connections & hubs * verified the cabling What is very strange is that FTP and Telnet to the Linux server work just fine. It is also strange that I can take this trouble system and connect it to a completely different Linux Server and network and it will transfer as expected. The card installed at the Linux server where the xfers do not work is a NetGear FA310TX. The card installed at the Linux server where the xfers do work is an NE2000 compatible. The Linux version at both locations is RedHat 5.1. The Samba version at both locations is 2.0.0. We have considered trying 2.0.2, but from the fixes made we felt this wouldn't solve our problem. The OS of the station is Win95 4.00.95A. ANY HELP / IDEAS would be greatly appreaciated. -- Hank Burton ==================================================================== Literati Information Technology, LLC wburton@literati.com PO Box 638 http://www.literati.com/ 68 High Street Morgantown, WV 26507-0638 (304) 296-8026
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hank Burton writes: > ANY HELP / IDEAS would be greatly appreaciated. Sounds like a permission problem on the unix side. Did you set 'write ok = yes' in the share definition? Check the uid that's used on the unix side with smbstatus, and check the unix permissions against that. Volker -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNtJrgj/9BWnmOc5FAQFU4QQAor2RIYSjZyxoYwyFl8R6sjlcCt+zLYIK stcXPueZ57NIgZUkBrJopu8BMJx8QG7/XfSiX93afszzFuKZDAkhTVFWkoUXIqiy eoDeHXHc0g47iqh4iZl83CXb6yut2emK6J1Kb9XIpspXJrj9PS+9JMdZCeAOHVbD hmad9tWT1R0=hTVU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
When the world was young, Hank Burton <wburton@literati.com> carved some runes like this:> We have a very perplexing problem at a client's location. The problem is > simply that we cannot copy files from a PII-450 station to a Linux Server > running Samba. The station can write to other network Win95 clients just > fine. The station can read from the Linux Server just fine, just cannot > write via Samba.[snip]> ANY HELP / IDEAS would be greatly appreaciated.It's probably not this simple, but are you sure the permissions are set to allow the user (coming from the win95 box) write access to the share? Are you mapping the win95 hostname to an account on the linux box? What guest account are you using (or are you trying to write to a home share)? You did say it could write to another samba server, right? If so, then you're sure the network card is okay? What are the permissions underneath the share on the 2nd linux box (compared to the permissions on the problem share)? Make sure the directories under the share are not owned by root (I've been there, done that) and that the user samba is authenticating can write to those directories. You did say *any* ideas... Hope this helps, Steve