[Samba] can't write to writeable drives

[Bill Measday]

I think the relevant processes are listed below Pavel.

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root      6264     1  0 Aug02 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      6265  6264  0 Aug02 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      6267     1  0 Aug02 ?        00:00:03 nmbd -D
bill     12214  4916  0 07:00 pts/2    00:00:00 smbclient //host/test
-Ubill%deleted password
bill     12215  6264  0 07:00 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root     12216  6264  0 07:00 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
4776  0 07:01 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -Af


Rgds


Bill


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:22 +0200, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> Well, could you check ... sorry I am not able describe it in English, I'll write it in Bash language :-)
> 
> > ps -Af | grep
> 
> ... and check UID of selected processes.
> 
> Regards,
>  P.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:24:34 +1000
> Bill Measday <linux_test at measday.com> wrote:
> 
> > And therein lies the problem - I've tried all these simple things and
> > the answer is eluding me (in other words, no problem creating directory
> > directly from bash)
> > 
> > Rgds
> > 
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:12 +0200, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:31:35 +1000
> > > Bill Measday <linux_test at measday.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What about permissions and owner of /data/bill?
> > > > > 
> > > > > P.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > drwxrwxrwx  4 bill    net_users  4096 Jul 31 07:45 bill
> > > > 
> > > > It doesn't seem to be anything quite as trivial as permissions, but
> > > > then, who knows?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Well, log to this machine as linux user bill and try to create file and directory in /data/bill. If it will not work, check permissions of /data. If it will work, I cannot find simple answer why.
> > > P.
> > 
> >