[Samba] Problems with my samba share permissions

[nick pitlosh]

Just out of curiosity why does everyone seem to use host instead of
something like dig +trace? It seems like it would resolve a lot of problems.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:26 AM Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

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> On 25/04/2023 03:38, Steven Vishoot via samba wrote:
> > I have a situation where my shares all give me permission denied errors
> > whenever I try to save a file to it. I have four shares and one of them
> is
> > allowed to save but the others will not save anything. The one that I can
> > write to is original to the server and was set up when samba still had
> swat
> > and that let me do a lot of things in the shared files. The other three
> > were added later and I didn't try saving anything to these drives because
> > originally was the backup server. Now it is the main server since the
> > other server crashed. Now I cannot figure out what is wrong even when I
> use
> > webmin it still doesn't show me that anything is wrong. What else can I
> do?
> > I am stumped and annoyed. I have attached my config file for samba.
> Please
> > can someone help me figure this out?
> > Regards,
> > Steven Vishoot
> >
> >
>
> I wouldn't use webmin, it hasn't really kept up with Samba.
>
> You haven't told us what OS and Samba version you are using, so the
> following is guess work.
>
> This list strips attachments, so this is the OP's smb.conf:
>
> # See smb.conf.example for a more detailed config file or
> # read the smb.conf manpage.
> # Run 'testparm' to verify the config is correct after
> # you modified it.
>
> [global]
>         host allow = 192.168.1, 127.
>         load printers = yes
>         cups options = raw
>         printing = cups
>         workgroup = SAMBA
>         create mask = 0664
>         printcap name = cups
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         dirctory mask = 0777
>
> Unless that is a copying error, dirctory should be directory
>
>         security = user
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         valid users = %S, %D%w%S
>         browseable = No
>         read only = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/tmp
>         printable = Yes
>         create mask = 0600
>         browseable = No
>
> [print$]
>         comment = Printer Drivers
>         path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
>         write list = @printadmin root
>         force group = @printadmin
>         create mask = 0664
>         directory mask = 0775
>
> [image-movies]
>         comment = All movies
>         writeable = yes
>         user = @svishoot
>
> Hmm, 'user' was a synonym for 'username' and 'username' was removed at
> Samba 4.5.0
> I would change 'user' to 'valid users'
>
>         path = /images-movies
>
> [shared]
>         comment = Shared Directory
>         writeable = yes
>         valid users = @svishoot,,steven
>         user = @svishoot
>         path = /shared
>         directory mode = 775
>
> [music]
>          comment = Music Directory
>          path = /music
>          user = @svishoot
>          writeable = yes
>          read only = no
>
> You do know that 'writeable' and 'read only' are inverted synonyms ?
> That is, in the way you have them set, they mean exactly the same.
>
>
> [picture]
>          comment = Picture Directory
>          path = /picture
>          user = @svishoot
>          writeable = yes
>          read only = no
>
> [quicken]
>          comment = Quicken Directory
>          path = /quicken
>          user = @svishoot, at steven
>          writeable = yes
>          read only = no
>
> The other thing to look at, Samba cannot give more permissions than the
> underlying acls allow, so check that the users have the required
> permissions on the share directories.
>
> Rowland
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