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

Gerard Seibert gerard-seibert at suscom.net
Sat Jul 9 10:42:56 GMT 2005


On Friday, July 08, 2005 11:58:42 AM Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> 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
>
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Saturday, July 09, 2005 6:41:42 AM

Check the file permissions on that directory. I had a similar problem. I
changed the permissions to 0777 and everything worked fine.

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Gerard E. Seibert
gerard-seibert at suscom.net



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