How to grant write permissions in Samba?
- by Eric Fossum
I'm having trouble with read/write permissions on my Samba server, how do I fix my smb.conf and file permissions to have a more unified access?
smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = LnxNAS
server string = %h
wins support = no
dns proxy = no
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
[Video]
path = /data/eric/Videos
[Music]
path = /data/eric/Music
[Pictures]
path = /data/eric/Pictures
[data]
path = /data
my ls -l of /data/eric/Pictures
drwxrwxrwx 2 ericfoss root 4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Android Projs
drwxrwxrwx 3 ericfoss root 4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Automotive
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 2439 2010-12-17 17:03 BDD reduction.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 2722 2010-12-17 16:55 BDD Tree.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 7341 2010-12-17 16:46 BDD Tree.xcf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 72421 2007-11-22 22:59 Bum Ninja.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 32152 2010-12-17 21:25 cell transition.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 40212 2010-12-17 17:55 control graph.png
drwxrwxrwx 2 ericfoss root 4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Crap
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root 82 2010-09-20 17:18 desktop.ini
ericfoss@SERVER:~$
If I try to delete \Server\Pictures\Crap it says permission denied, but \Server\data\eric\Pictures\crap can be deleted... I thought security = user took care of this?