samba - Jul 2005 - permission denied from winxp box to samba share.

trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with samba 
3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:39 sambashare

in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have

[globalshare]
   path = /usr/local/share/sambashare
   read only = No
   guest ok = Yes
   guest only = Yes
   guest account = nobody
   writeable = yes

windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get
"permission
denied" in the log, I see 

[2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648)
  xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user nobody 
(uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680)

but thats it.

Jason

Jason,

You need to give users write permission on the linux box before they 
will be able to write to the share. Try:

chmod 777 /usr/local/share/sambashare

on your linux box. That should do the trick.

Paul

Jason wrote:
> trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with
samba
> 3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:39 sambashare
> 
> in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have
> 
> [globalshare]
>    path = /usr/local/share/sambashare
>    read only = No
>    guest ok = Yes
>    guest only = Yes
>    guest account = nobody
>    writeable = yes
> 
> windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get
"permission
> denied" in the log, I see 
> 
> [2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648)
>   xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user
nobody
> (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680)
> 
> but thats it.
> 
> Jason
> 
>

its always the case, I send email to the list and the very next thing I try 
works..

actually, I chowned the destination directory to nobody and that worked..
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody root 4096 Jul  8 16:44 sambashare

sorry for the stupid question. hopefully it will help someone else.

Jason


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:38:52PM -0400, Paul Dunphy
wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> You need to give users write permission on the linux box before they 
> will be able to write to the share. Try:
> 
> chmod 777 /usr/local/share/sambashare
> 
> on your linux box. That should do the trick.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Jason wrote:
> >trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with
> >samba 3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like
> >drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:39 sambashare
> >
> >in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have
> >
> >[globalshare]
> >   path = /usr/local/share/sambashare
> >   read only = No
> >   guest ok = Yes
> >   guest only = Yes
> >   guest account = nobody
> >   writeable = yes
> >
> >windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get 
> >"permission denied" in the log, I see 
> >
> >[2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648)
> >  xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user
> >  nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680)
> >
> >but thats it.
> >
> >Jason
> >
> >
>

On Friday, July 08, 2005 11:58:42 AM Jason <jason@monsterjam.org> wrote:
>trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with
samba
>3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:39 sambashare
>
>in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have
>
>[globalshare]
>   path = /usr/local/share/sambashare
>   read only = No
>   guest ok = Yes
>   guest only = Yes
>   guest account = nobody
>   writeable = yes
>
>windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get
"permission
>denied" in the log, I see 
>
>[2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648)
>  xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user
nobody
>(uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680)
>
>but thats it.
>
>Jason
>
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Saturday, July 09, 2005 6:41:42 AM

Check the file permissions on that directory. I had a similar problem. I
changed the permissions to 0777 and everything worked fine.

-- 
Gerard E. Seibert
gerard-seibert@suscom.net