Quoting Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I currently serve three WinXP machines with their home directories and a > read only archive directory. this all works fine. I want to supply a > communal directory that everyone can read and write to. I thought it > would be straight forward, but it hasn't been and I do not know why. > > I created a directory \mnt\store\pub\everyone and made it 777. > > I added the following to samba.conf > > [share] > comment = Shared > guest ok = yes > writable = yes > create mask = 777 > directory mask = 777 > force user = root > force group = root > map archive = yes > map system = yes > map hidden = yes > locking = no > path = /mnt/store/pub/everyone > public = yes > > The didectory appears on the Windows machine, but Windows users have no > access. What is the most likely thing I have got wrong? Anyone help.
Hi, I wonder if your "force" user and group to root is causing your problem. Samba thinks that only root can access this share. Do you have a smbpasswd entry for root? You probably shouldn't. Check your samba logs and run # testparm for more help. Also, you may want to consider using the sticky bit for a public writeable directory. hth, Cheers, Mike ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
