I have a path on a Linux machine (Debian 8) which I want to share with Samba 4 to Windows computers (Win7 and 8 in a domain). In my smb.conf
I did the following:
[myshare]
path = /path/to/share
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
I have perfect read access from Windows. But in order to have write access, I need to do chmod -R 777 /path/to/share
in order to be able to write to it from Windows.
What I want is write access from Windows after I provide the Linux credentials of the Linux owner of /path/to/share
.
I already tried:
[myshare]
path = /path/to/share
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
Then Windows asks for credentials, but no matter what I enter, it's always denied.
What is the correct way to gain write access to Samba shares from a Windows domain computer without granting 777 permissions?
Best Answer
I recommend to create a dedicated user for that share and specify it in
force user
(see docs).Create a user (
shareuser
for example) and set the owner of everything in the share folder to that user:Then add
force user
and permission mask settings insmb.conf
:Note that
guest ok
is a synonym forpublic
.