Samba Configuration

Question

I am having a problem when configuring samba

I manage to login to samba and create a folder and configure it t share.

I can see the the folder on my windows machine but when trying to click in it it says that i have no permissions

I have added acess to all users on samba config

should i try to remove and re-install samba? if so would be the command?

could it be an issue with the actual drive permission that the folder is at?

When i try to do it from the GUI in Ubunutu(bypassing samba) i get error net usershar:cannot pen usershare directory error permition denied

any ideas?

thanks

can you provide the file permission on the shared folder? ls -lrt <folder_name> The folder should have read+execute permission for group and others.
change the permission of the folder to 775. chmod 775 <directory_name> . It should work then.

prophecy201 · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-21 14:28:10Z

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A share-config in smb.conf can look like this.

[share]
path = /opt/share
valid users = <user>
read only = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
readable = yes
writable = yes
browseable = yes

Did you added and enabled the user?

sudo smbpasswd -a <user>
sudo smbpasswd -e <user>

Make sure both processes "smbd" and "nmbd" are running:

sudo ps axu | grep smbd
sudo ps axu | grep nmbd

answered Feb 21 at 14:28

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