its always the case, I send email to the list and the very next thing I try works..
actually, I chowned the destination directory to nobody and that worked.. drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root 4096 Jul 8 16:44 sambashare sorry for the stupid question. hopefully it will help someone else. Jason On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:38:52PM -0400, Paul Dunphy wrote: > Jason, > > You need to give users write permission on the linux box before they > will be able to write to the share. Try: > > chmod 777 /usr/local/share/sambashare > > on your linux box. That should do the trick. > > Paul > > Jason wrote: > >trying to set up a totaly anonymous share for users on a linux box with > >samba 3.0.10 point to a dir on my hard drive that looks like > >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 22:39 sambashare > > > >in my smb.conf, for this dir, I have > > > >[globalshare] > > path = /usr/local/share/sambashare > > read only = No > > guest ok = Yes > > guest only = Yes > > guest account = nobody > > writeable = yes > > > >windows users can see the share, but cant write to it.. they get > >"permission denied" in the log, I see > > > >[2005/07/08 11:52:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(648) > > xp-01 (192.168.4.49) connect to service globalshare initially as user > > nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 17680) > > > >but thats it. > > > >Jason > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
