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  1. #11
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    Dec 2009
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    Re: permissions could not be determined

    Here's the problem. You want to give your remote users access to the shares and you've instructed samba to allow guest access - which it does. But the underlying linux permissions is only allowing you to read and write.

    There's two ways to fix this:
    (1) Mount the drives in fstab with the correct permissions if it's a fat32 or ntfs partition. Or a chmod if it's a ext3/4 partition.
    (2) Or use samba itself to fix this problem:

    Open Terminal
    Type gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

    Then change this:
    [Drive_1]
    path = /media/Drive_1
    guest ok = Yes

    [Drive_2]
    path = /media/Drive_2
    guest ok = Yes
    To this:
    [Drive_1]
    path = /media/Drive_1
    guest ok = Yes
    force user = tonyw

    [Drive_2]
    path = /media/Drive_2
    guest ok = Yes
    force user = tonyw
    This will create a mask that will make linux think that the remote user is you ( as far as that share is concerned ) since you are the only one who has access to it.

    Save the smb.conf file, exit gedit, and back in the terminal issue a : sudo service samba restart

  2. #12
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
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    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

    Re: permissions could not be determined

    THANKS! That took care of the Vista box. Now I need to figure out the problem which I now know is with Windows 7.

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