[Samba] can't open files off of samba shared drive on w2k/xpworkstations

[David Rankin]

Phillip,

    It sounds like a file permission problem. Here are my permissions:

[root at Nemesis /root]# ls -al /home/samba
total 40
drwxrwxr-x    9 root     root         4096 Apr  5 16:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Jul 15 14:23 ../
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     bertin       4096 Jul  2 14:12 bertin/
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     guillory     4096 Aug 10 20:14 guillory/
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     price        4096 May 13  2003 karren/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec 15  2003 logon/
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     rankin       4096 Apr 13 13:32 rankin/
drwxrwxr-x   32 root     rbpllc       4096 Aug 27 10:17 rbpllc/

In my smb.conf I use:

[Rankin]
        path = /home/samba/rankin
        valid users = @rankin
        force group = rankin
        writeable = Yes
        map archive = Yes
        inherit permissions = Yes

I don't have any problems doubleclicking on word docs and having them open.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip K" <phillipkuo at gmail.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: [Samba] can't open files off of samba shared drive on
w2k/xpworkstations


> Hi,
>
> I have somewhat successfully got Samba working where as users can map
> the drives to their win2k/xp workstations and wrote to the folders
> they are given permissions to.  They can write to the folder, delete
> folders, write files, delete files, view the file listing, however,
> they can't open files.  For instance, if there is a word document,
> they can't just double click on the share and work on the file right
> off of the share.  They have to go through the trouble of dragging the
> file to their desktop, make their changes and then copy it back
> overwriting whatever changes they made before.  Is there an entry in
> the smb.conf file that I'm missing?
>
> I am running samba 3.0 on gentoo 2002.4
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Phill
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