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Hi: I was just finishing a Samba installation
and I was having the same problems you were, I could access the Samba shares
from the Windows machines but I didn’t have write permissions. There are
two things that I did to get it to work properly. First go to the Webmin configuration
for any folder that you are sharing to all windows machines,
in here click the link that says “File permissions”. Once in there look
at the permissions set for the directory and the file, make sure that they are
sufficient for the users to be able to write. I think that by default Webmin sets
the permissions at 755. If you haven’t made any Samba groups or users
then you might want to set those permissions to 777 HOWEVER, this is really not
recommended since this means that you are giving your users full access to the
directory. Once you have figured out the kinds of
permissions you want to setup in Webmin you also have to make sure that the
actual directory has the correct write permissions in shell. You can check the
permissions by running ls –l and you can change
the permissions by using chmod. If you don’t have
any users or groups set up for samba access and you just want to give everyone
full access to that directory then run the following command: chmod directoryname 777 And also set the permissions in Webmin to
777. Remember that after you change something in the samba configuration in Webmin
you have to restart Samba for the changes to take effect, you can also do this
through Webmin at the push of a button. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- All right, I know I’m
dumb. Go ahead and tell me anyway. Samba is running and appears
happy. From the Woody server, I can access my Windoze shares without
difficulty – mount –t smbfs works fine. From my Windoze
clients, I can see the Debian server and browse the shares – I can even
map drives and printers. But I have no access past that. From Windoze’s point of view,
security options show my “users” group with no rights,
“everyone” with no rights, and (since I’m sharing a fax
folder) the uucp user/group with full access. Where do I permit my
“users” group to have full access to a file/print share?
Using Webmin, I placed my “users” group in “Possible
Groups” and “Read/Write Groups”. What am I missing? Daniel |