Stupid Samba question

[Louie1961]

My question is probably stupid (not Samba) but here goes:

I have my linux laptop and my win 98SE desktop networked, and got samba up and running (kind of) without too much difficulty. But I find that my linux machine can write to the windows machine, but the reverse isn't true. My windows machine can read from but not write to the linux machine. here is my smb.conf file (and i am running redhat 7.1):

# Global parameters
workgroup = workgroup
server string = Samba SMB Server
security = SHARE
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = No
guest account = nobody
hide dot files = No

[public]
comment = Public
path = /home/public
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0664
guest ok = Yes

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Your permissions on the linux box are probably wrong.. Take a look at the docs to see what they should be.

 

[Koeppster]

Check the permissions on /home/public.

Do ls -l /home/public. Check that write permissions are set correctly (which it sounds like they're not). If you need to change anything, man chmod.

Also read the man pages for smb.conf and check through the Samba documentation (which is very well done, or at least was the last time I used Samba).

Good luck...

 

[TonyRic]

If you have granted the proper read/write access to the share/directory (Need both the Samba permissions and the File System permissions set properly) then your problem most likely is this:

You have guest access turned on therefore you will be able to read the share with no problems irregardless of whom you are... What you are not telling us is quite possibly the golden clue here... Are you getting an access denied error when attempting to write to the share??? If so then you have an encrypted password problem and the following entery needs to be made to the Global section of the smb.conf file:

encrypt passwords = yes

This should take care of the problem... Or you could go to regedit.com and get the reg hack to send unencrypted passwords, but for obvious security reasons this is not recommended... Setup samba to send it encrypted...