On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a fairly simple requirement > > I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a > folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. > > I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its > own, but I then discovered the existance of nautilus-share which > should make it so much easier when I want to swap around things. > > I followed instructions in /usr/share/doc/nautilus-share, adding > myself to the sambashare group and right clicking on an appropriate > folder inside my home dir (several layers in) and adding sharing. > Clicking on guests-allow. > > Checking the permissions of things > > /var/lib/samba/usershares is 1777 and owned by root:sambashare > > the file inside /var/lib/samba/usershare that represents my share > has permissions 644 and is owned by alan:alan (ie me). Its contents > include the path to my share and the following two lines. > Are you sure that all the paths leading up to the shared file have proper permissions? If a 644 file is inside a 700 directory, nobody will be able to get to it.
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