[Samba] guest share writable but unable to delete

Peter Baranyi peter.baranyi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 12:16:05 MST 2011


On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:26 +0100, Günter Kukkukk wrote:
> 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

tried with 3.5.9~dfsg-1 and 3.5.11~dfsg-4 (debian) with same results.

using:  security = share

Regards, Peter



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