[Samba] Read Write by everyone over network

Hamish captainmish at gmx.net
Fri Jul 30 13:54:13 GMT 2004


Hi Robin,
Make sure that the directory /shared is writeable by the user you are 
connecting as: the easiest way to do this is `chmod 777 /shared` (not 
sure if there is a better permission to put on it, but it works)
Hope that helps,
H

Robin Wilson wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have managed to successfully set samba up so that I can access my windows
>shares from linux and my linux shares from windows, but, when I access my
>linux shares from windows I cannot write to them.
>
>Here is an excerpt from my smb.conf file:
>
>[shared]
>comment = Shared directory on Linux box
>path = /shared
>guest ok = yes
>writeable = yes
>
>Why doesn't this work?
>
>What should I be doing instead?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Robin
>
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