I have the following config for samba:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = z
log level = 0 vfs:0
syslog = 0
max log size = 0
load printers = No
printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = Yes
preload = share
default service = share
guest ok = Yes
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
guest account = ibm86
And the following share:
[data]
force group = ibm86
path = /data
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
I'm trying to share the directory /data in my network to be writeable by everyone.
Now, I'm able to read all the files on the disk, but I can't write anywhere. From Windows I get "You need permission to perform this action".
As the mapped user, I can read/write to this directory without any issue:
[ibm86@z ~]$ stat /data
File: ‘/data’
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 900h/2304d Inode: 2 Links: 7
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ ibm86) Gid: ( 1000/ ibm86)
Access: 2015-04-03 05:09:28.631608867 +0300
Modify: 2015-04-03 05:03:58.843604604 +0300
Change: 2015-04-03 05:09:22.783608792 +0300
Birth: -
[ibm86@z ~]$ cd /data
[ibm86@z /data]$ touch a
[ibm86@z /data]$ ls -l a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ibm86 ibm86 0 Apr 3 05:23 a
So, what gives? What am I doing wrong? This used to work perfectly with security = share but since Ubuntu upgraded from Samba 2.x, this hasn't work at all. I'm currently on Version 4.1.6-Ubuntu.
Best Answer
you also need to add
force user = someusername. As it is in your current configuration the unix file permissions wont allow one user to change other users file. If you want to have different users to be able to write on all files in a share, you need to force user as well as group, so that all files in share will be owned by same user, who then will have permission to write. I usually do (user and group name will depend on your distribution, but its usually one of nobody / noone / nogroup / nouser):