[Samba] permission denied from winxp box to samba share.

[Paul Dunphy]

Jason,

You need to give users write permission on the linux box before they 
will be able to write to the share. Try:

chmod 777 /usr/local/share/sambashare

on your linux box. That should do the trick.

Paul

Jason wrote:
> trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with samba 
> 3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:39 sambashare
> 
> in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have
> 
> [globalshare]
>    path = /usr/local/share/sambashare
>    read only = No
>    guest ok = Yes
>    guest only = Yes
>    guest account = nobody
>    writeable = yes
> 
> windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get "permission 
> denied" in the log, I see 
> 
> [2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648)
>   xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user nobody 
> (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680)
> 
> but thats it.
> 
> Jason
> 
>