Still can't write to a Win98 share! PLEASE HELP!

[Julian Opificius]

I saw a little of this thread before, but can't say I followed it 
completely, so just ignore me if you haven't checked the following ...

I can see from your smb.conf that you've set all the lights to green on the 
Samba side, but what about the actual Linux directory and file permissions? 
Remember that Samba cannot grant any privilege not granted by Linux, so you 
have to make sure you have directory/file permissions at least as open as 
775 if everyone is part of the file/directory group, or 777 if you have 
public users who don't satisfy group membership.

julian.
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At 02:51 AM 12/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I've posted here with this problem before, and while several people DID try
>to help, nothing seems to work!
>
>Here's the situation (again):
>
>I have a Linux box (Mandrake 7.0) running Samba (2.0.6) compiled from
>source. I can mount/read/write the linux shares just fine, but when trying
>to write to my Win98 shares (which mount perfectly), I get "permission
>denied".
>
>This only happens for standard users. As root, I can
>read/write/execute/move/delete files with no problems whatsoever. As a
>standard user, I can only read files on the Win98 mounted shares.
>
>Yes, I'm mounting them with FULL permissions (on the Win98 side).
>
>PLEASE HELP!
>
>Here is a copy of my /etc/fstab, and a copy of my /etc/smb.conf if it
>helps...
>
>============ /etc/fstab ============
>/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
>/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
>
>//mav/scott_pics /mnt/scott_pics smbfs guest,rw,fmask=0666,dmask=0777  0 0
>
>//mav/mav_z  /mnt/mav_z  smbfs  user  0  0
>//mav/mav_cd  /mnt/mav_cd  smbfs  ro,user  0  0
>//mav/html  /mnt/html  smbfs  user  0  0
>
>============ /etc/smb.conf ============
>[global]
>         null passwords = yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         max log size = 50
>         domain master = no
>         dns proxy = no
>         domain logons = no
>         preferred master = no
>         password level = 0
>         encrypt passwords = no
>         server string = Samba Server
>         workgroup = MAVUS
>         unix password sync = no
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         load printers = yes
>         security = user
>         writable = yes
>         os level = 0
>         dead time = 0
>         wins support = no
>         public = yes
>         debug level = 0
>
>[mavus]
>         comment = Mavus
>         guest ok = yes
>         create mode = 777
>         directory mode = 777
>         browseable = yes
>         writable = yes
>         path = /home/mavus
>         public = yes
>
>[http]
>         guest ok = yes
>         comment = Local Web Interface
>         create mode = 777
>         directory mode = 777
>         writable = yes
>         browseable = yes
>         path = /www/servers
>         public = yes
>
>[homes]
>     comment = Home Directories
>     browseable = yes
>     writable = yes
>     public = no
>     only user = yes
>
>[archives]
>     comment = File Archives
>     path = /home/archives
>     guest ok = yes
>     writable = yes
>     browseable = yes
>     public = yes
>
>[printers]
>     comment = All Printers
>     path = /var/spool/samba
>     browseable = no
>     guest ok = no
>     writable = no
>     printable = yes
>
>[temp]
>         guest ok = yes
>         comment = Temporary file space
>         create mode = 777
>         wide links = no
>         directory mode = 777
>         writable = yes
>         path = /temp
>         public = yes
>
>[cdrom]
>     comment = CD-ROM Drive
>     path = /mnt/cdrom
>     read only = yes
>     public = yes
>     guest ok = yes
>     browseable = yes
>     writable = no
>
>[mavus]
>     comment = Mav's Home
>     path = /home/mavus
>     read only = no
>     public = yes
>     guest ok = yes
>     browseable = yes
>     writable = yes
>
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