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Re: Samba write permissions



On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:42 +0000, Kathy Wills wrote:

You might find that you need to insert a
     writable = yes

into the share you want writing to.

Chris


Alan Chandler wrote:

>On Tuesday 19 April 2005 22:00, Brendan Martens wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having some trouble allowing my PCs to write to my samba share. I
>>got samba working (finally, thanks to swat) however no one can write to
>>the shares I made, even though I have "read _only_ = no" set. Also I am
>>using guest accounts, does that have anything to do with it?
>>
>>Brendan. ; )
>>    
>>
>
>Here is a bit of my smb.conf for a common fileshare for all users (my security 
>= user).
>
>The guest is account nobody
>
>[fileshare]
>        comment = general fileshare
>        path = /var/lib/samba/fileshare
>        read _only_ = No
>        create mask = 0777
>        force create mode = 0666
>        directory mask = 0777
>        force directory mode = 0777
>        guest _only_ = Yes
>        guest ok = Yes
>
>
>
>  
>
Here is the site that helped my to get my samba working.  
http://www.samba.netfirms.com/sambconf.htm#smb

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