[Samba] Read-only permissions - incorrect user mapping?

[Rowland penny]

On 26/12/2019 18:46, Steven Foucault via samba wrote:
> I have a problem regarding permissions of a SMB share.
> I created a share for my user “steven” which has correct unix permissions (I have read/write access to this folder when I log in to the server via “steven”)
>
> drwxr-xr-x   steven root   share
>
> When I export this share with no “force user” entry in smb.conf I can access the share only read only.
> When I use “force user = steven” it’s the same.
> When I use “force user = root” I have read write access to this share.
>
> It looks like the samba user “steven” (which exists) is not mapped to the correct unix user. I thought this is the default behaviour.
>
> pdbedit -L
> steven:1000:steven
>
> id steven
> uid=1000(steven) gid=1000(steven) groups=1000(steven)
>
> When I add - chmod o+w share - write permissions for “others” I can access share read/write via samba.
> How can I make samba connect the samba user “steven” to the system user “steven”?
>
> BTW: There’s no SELinux enabled.
>
> Thanks!
> Steven
>
>
> —
> [share]
>      path = /tank
>      available = yes
>      browsable = yes
>      read only = no
>      writeable = yes
>      create mask = 0600
>      directory mask = 0700
>      public = no
>      force user = steven

Sorry, but not enough info ;-)

What OS ?

What Samba version ?

What is in [global] ?

What are you connecting from ?

That should be enough to start from.

Rowland