Cant write on samba share from windows

[mlmpihl]

Hi.

I created a samba share with ubuntu konfiguration of samba in the graphic envirement.

I can acces it from my windows, but I can not write to it

I use latest ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop

Hope someone can help me
Best regards
Kenneth

[NT4usB]

I'd guess permissions.
Did you grant read/write permission to others?

[jerenept]

open a terminal. (Applications>Accessories>Terminal)
enter

sudo apt-get install system-config-samba

type in your password.

After this is installed, go to
System>Administration>Samba and enter your password when prompted.

You can edit Windows shares graphically from there.

[mlmpihl]

Thanks for the answers. I already installed samba, and also used the graphical setting tool that is on the menubar (system/administration/samba)

I also have acces to Samba from my windows pc's. All the users are also able to acces and see the share. But no users are granted permission to write.

As for now, we have a share, with no files (need to move files from windows pc), we can see the share from windows, acces it, but can write to it.

Would it be an idea maybe to put the configuration in smb.conf in this thread?

/Kenneth

[Paddy Landau]

Would it be an idea maybe to put the configuration in smb.conf in this thread?

Yes, OK. Remember to wrap [ code] and [/ code] around it (press the # button on the toolbar).

Did you make your directory writeable by everyone?

In the Samba GUI, did you set the share to Writable and Allow access to everyone?

[NT4usB]

[wag]
I've never tried ext4. Can Windows write to an ext4 share? Are you using ext4?

[pricetech]

It doesn't matter what the file system is on the Linux box, Samba shares it as a windows share.

It's probably permissions, adjustable in the configuration tool.

[Nixie Pixel]

I have found that creating directories or copying/moving files to the share from Ubuntu sometimes creates restrictive permissions, when doing the same from Windows does not. So on my Ubuntu file server if I were to create a directory or put, say, images on the shared drive, I could then read them from windows machines, but not write/modify.

I think I found chown to be useful here.

[NT4usB]

I have found that creating directories or copying/moving files to the share from Ubuntu sometimes creates restrictive permissions, when doing the same from Windows does not. So on my Ubuntu file server if I were to create a directory or put, say, images on the shared drive, I could then read them from windows machines, but not write/modify.

I think I found chown to be useful here.

Interesting...
I was surprised to find Linux respecting Windows permissions.
Whenever I copy from XP/2K to Ubuntu, I have to chown/chmod the files in order to to edit them.
All my Linux boxes have the same username so moving files between them is a non issue.

[stevewasiura]

I'm having the same problem.

On winxp i can open a file explorer window to the share on xUbuntu,
I can open a file for editing,
but I cannot save the file

Please advise:
1. how can I tell which xubuntu user account I am connecting to xubuntu with?
(I looked in /var/log/samba, found the file named after my windows machine, opened it, one of the lines contained

 
connect to service ubuntu_www (the name of the share) initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 4101)

It appears to me that my connection is not using a valid account, therefore I assume permissions are not being applied.

2. How can I force winxp to connect to the xubuntu share using an account name and password on xubuntu?
I've tried to map a drive on winxp and connect using a different username UBUNTU\username and password, but winxp fails to map the drive because the user account password doesn't connect.

Thanks in advance.