[Samba] guest share writable but unable to delete

Günter Kukkukk linux at kukkukk.com
Mon Nov 21 08:26:19 MST 2011


On Sunday 20 November 2011 18:21:58 Peter Baranyi wrote:
> hi, I set up a share with writeable = yes, guest only = yes, guest ok
> = yes, so I can connect without password and create files in the name
> of the specified guest account unix user .  but I am unable to delete
> the created file!
> 
> I can only delete the file if the parent directory has other
> permissions set to +w
> 
> it seems that samba is creating the file using the guest account user,
> but deletion is done with user nobody!  how can this be?  did I do a
> configuration error?

which samba version?

Cheers, Günter


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