Can't write to guest share

William R. Knox wknox at mitre.org
Fri Jan 26 13:43:43 GMT 2001


Try the easy ones first - are the permissions on /home/guest set to 777
(or, as is often used, 1777)?

			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Keith Reynolds wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:12:32 -0600
> From: Keith Reynolds <kreynolds at ascensionhealth.org>
> To: samba at us5.samba.org
> Subject: Can't write to guest share
>
> I have a guest share set up like:
>
> [guest]
>  comment = Guest Share
>  path = /home/guest
>  browseable = yes
>  writeable = Yes
>  create mask = 0777
>  guest ok = Yes
>
> When I access this share a cannot create new documents.  I have tried both security = user and security = share.  Obviously I'm missing something.  What is it?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
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