I'm working on bringing up a new server and decided to give Ubuntu
7.10 64 bit a try. I installed it to a vmware instance along with
Samba to test it out before hand while waiting for all the hardware to
show up.
I made my smb.conf file similar to what I have on my Gentoo server
that is working fine. My goal is to have read only shares for most
users but with ability to write by admins.
This is what I have for my gentoo machine (working). (Just showing the
shares portion.)
[files]
comment = Misc Files and Programs
path = /shares/files
valid users = @users
admin users = @admin
write list = @admin
With Ubuntu the above doesn't work at all. Clients can't connect.
Users are added into smbpasswd and are in the 'users' group. Admins
are in admin.
I followed an Ubuntu wiki on Samba and came up with this.
[files]
comment = Misc Files and Programs
path = /shares/files
read only = yes
create mask = 644
directory mask = 755
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
#valid users = @users
#admin users = @admin
#write list = @admin
My clients can connect but I had to comment out the lines above to get
it to work.
So I tried this.
[files]
comment = Misc Files and Programs
path = /shares/files
create mask = 644
directory mask = 755
write list = user1
Again, able to connect, but no joy on writes for user1
I'm not really sure on next steps. And confused as those options work
fine on my Gentoo install but can't get them working at all on Ubuntu.
Can someone please point me in the write direction?
Thank you
