samba - Nov 2005 - cannot create entry in directory created by Samba

Using Fedora Core 4, Samba 3.0.14a-2, apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.14-standard,
and Tomcat 5.5.9

I am using XP machines to access a file server also running XP. The database
server however is FC4, so I use Samba to create the file structure, so far
as linux knows, on the database server. This is so that the the front end
for the database, java code (JSP's and Servlets) also running on the
database server, has easy access to all the necessary files. I realize there
are about 10^9 ways to set this up, but this is the way we chose. The java
code works fine for directories not set up by Samba. I can write just fine
to /usr/local/apache2/htdocs. I cannot write to
/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name.

in /etc/fstab I have added two lines:
//$fileServerName/$name1 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name1 smbfs
credentials=/home/$userName/credentials 0 0
//$fileServerName/$name2 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name2 smbfs
credentials=/home/$userName/credentials 0 0
(of course, $names are just me substituting for the actual names entered,
which can't be of any relevance to anyone reading this)
(oh, and 'credentials')

This does create the file server structure on the linux drive, and I may
read from it freely, but cannot write anything new to it, except as root,
which isn't who the java code is running as. At least I don't think it
is.
Now that I think of it, I'm a big load of 'not sure'. Tomcat was
installed
as root, and all the code runs from JSP's, Beans, and Servlets through
Tomcat.

All I really want is the ability to create a new folder in the Samba created
directories. The java code returns true or false correctly on blah.exists(),
but if false, then simply won't write the new file :( Works perfectly in
~/htdocs, but not the Samba directories.

in smbpasswd there are three entries:
bloggins, rbuser(also limited account on file server), sort(account on file
server with administrative access)

in smbusers:
root = administrator admin bloggins sort
rbuser = rbuser
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest

I am attaching the smb.conf file I am using.

Any help is appreciated,

Nikki
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On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:25 -0800, Nikki wrote:
> Using Fedora Core 4, Samba 3.0.14a-2, apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.14-standard,
> and Tomcat 5.5.9
> 
> I am using XP machines to access a file server also running XP. The
database
> server however is FC4, so I use Samba to create the file structure, so far
> as linux knows, on the database server. This is so that the the front end
> for the database, java code (JSP's and Servlets) also running on the
> database server, has easy access to all the necessary files. I realize
there
> are about 10^9 ways to set this up, but this is the way we chose. The java
> code works fine for directories not set up by Samba. I can write just fine
> to /usr/local/apache2/htdocs. I cannot write to
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name.
> 
> in /etc/fstab I have added two lines:
> //$fileServerName/$name1 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name1 smbfs
> credentials=/home/$userName/credentials 0 0
> //$fileServerName/$name2 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/$name2 smbfs
> credentials=/home/$userName/credentials 0 0
> (of course, $names are just me substituting for the actual names entered,
> which can't be of any relevance to anyone reading this)
> (oh, and 'credentials')
> 
> This does create the file server structure on the linux drive, and I may
> read from it freely, but cannot write anything new to it, except as root,
> which isn't who the java code is running as. At least I don't think
it is.
> Now that I think of it, I'm a big load of 'not sure'. Tomcat
was installed
> as root, and all the code runs from JSP's, Beans, and Servlets through
> Tomcat.
> 
> All I really want is the ability to create a new folder in the Samba
created
> directories. The java code returns true or false correctly on
blah.exists(),
> but if false, then simply won't write the new file :( Works perfectly
in
> ~/htdocs, but not the Samba directories.
> 
> in smbpasswd there are three entries:
> bloggins, rbuser(also limited account on file server), sort(account on file
> server with administrative access)
> 
> in smbusers:
> root = administrator admin bloggins sort
> rbuser = rbuser
> nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
> 
> I am attaching the smb.conf file I am using.
> 
> Any help is appreciated,
----
mounts via smbfs / fstab have nothing to do with samba at all.
smbpasswd/smb.conf/smbuser have nothing to do with it either.

man mount
probably has some of the answers you need.

I probably would just install Microsoft's 'Services For Unix' on a
setup
like this and do an nfs mount (or mounts)

Craig


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> This does create the file server structure on the linux drive, and I
> may read from it freely, but cannot write anything new to it, except
> as root, which isn't who the java code is running as.
Does the Samba 'force user' option help you at all?  You could force
the user to root (or whoever owns the directory tree) which would give
anyone connecting full access to the tree, just make sure you've got
proper permissions on the share itself or you could have some security
issues.

Cheers,
Adam.