samba - Mar 2004 - Windows access to data created by Linux application

I am using Samba on a remote Linux system to offer Windows clients access to
data being collected by a real-time system. The real-time data collection
systems are built on the RH 8 Linux distribution. I also have one that was
built using the RH Fedora Core 1 distribution. The data collection software
runs as root (yes I do know its not the best way but for a number of reasons
it is most convenient and the system ONLY runs the one application).

This system is an isolated subnet with only 6 boxes, 5 are Linux data
collection systems and the 6th is a Windows 2000 GUI box.

The problem arises when Windows client try's to access the data. It gets an
"Access Denied" message.
>From the default smb.conf - the following are my changes from the default...
workgroup = WORKGROUP

hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.

security = share

[filestore]
        comment = Digital Data Files
        path = /filestore
        public = yes
        writable = yes
        create mask = 0777
        directory mode = 0777

I am not a Linux guru, however is do have some experience with both Samba
and Linux.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Mike

Mike,

Try adding these lines to your smb.conf:
	Map To Guest = Bad User
	guest account = nobody

and 	guest ok = Yes
to the [filestore] section.

It appears you want to have
everyone given access to the
share, but the permissions
don't match that.
e.g. none of your Win2k users
are mapped to either User, Group,
or Others.  Mapping Guest (Everyone/Noone)
to the nobody account might
give you the access.

Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Westkamper [mailto:mjwestkamper@weiinc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:34 PM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Windows access to data created by Linux application
> 
> 
> 
> I am using Samba on a remote Linux system to offer Windows 
> clients access to
> data being collected by a real-time system. The real-time 
> data collection
> systems are built on the RH 8 Linux distribution. I also have 
> one that was
> built using the RH Fedora Core 1 distribution. The data 
> collection software
> runs as root (yes I do know its not the best way but for a 
> number of reasons
> it is most convenient and the system ONLY runs the one application).
> 
> This system is an isolated subnet with only 6 boxes, 5 are Linux data
> collection systems and the 6th is a Windows 2000 GUI box.
> 
> The problem arises when Windows client try's to access the 
> data. It gets an
> "Access Denied" message.
> 
> >From the default smb.conf - the following are my changes 
> from the default...
> 
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> 
> hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
> 
> security = share
> 
> [filestore]
>         comment = Digital Data Files
>         path = /filestore
>         public = yes
>         writable = yes
>         create mask = 0777
>         directory mode = 0777
> 
> I am not a Linux guru, however is do have some experience 
> with both Samba
> and Linux.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Mike
> 
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