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Will do until I fill them up again!

Hope it goes easier in Dec when I build the new server.

Thanks again!

works now with chmod 0775.

Now I can tune in the permissions.

Thanks!

Figured it out!

It was the drives

before


drwx------ 4 twinpeaksr twinpeaksr 4096 Jun 17 19:42 data1T
drwx------ 4 twinpeaksr twinpeaksr 4096 Jun 17 19:42 data2T
drwx------ 12...

Based on my last exiriment I think I can rule out the machine and samba, seems that I have a permissions issue:

- not machine, can access home directory without issue and access directory when...

twinpeaksr@trinity:/media$ id mary
uid=1004(mary) gid=1004(mary) groups=1004(mary),27(sudo),46(plugdev),1000(twinpeaksr),124(sambashare),1005(twinpeaks)
twinpeaksr@trinity:/media$ id twinpeaksr...

Now it is getting wierd...

So if I create a directory, in this case /Data/tester, then chown and chgrp to mary, and share via samba, she can access it.
If I take /media/data500G/Shareed and chown...

ext4

drwxrwxr-x 17 twinpeaksr twinpeaks 4096 Jun 17 17:20 /media/data500G/Shared

I tried copying the directory, and did not get it to work with that.

I also looked at the logs for her computer 'nelly' as well as her IP address, all logs for specific clients are empty. checked...

Understand now!

Setup with the homes directories and was able to access with both users! I assume that will get me closer to a solution???!?

One note, if I used 'valid users = %s' in the homes...

Thanks for the link, the shameless quote has got some good information that I could not find in the other tutorials, I will try out some of the things tonight and let you know how it works.

The...

Thanks for the move, sorry, was not sure the best place to post.

Background:
My Ubuntu "Server" (Desktop install with Samba, moving to server install in December) motherboard crashed and burned last week. Due to the age I decided to upgrade to a newer...

I am always up for a challenge...

I have somehow managed to create a 80% functional Samba Server Despite being new to Linux (with no GUI!) however I am still having some permissions problems. I have 2 users, Myself is one and user 2...

Thanks for the info, sorry for the delay. I will definitly look into the books, always good to have a reference. On the hosts, I am assuming I can update both the Linux and Windows machines, but...

Hi!

INTRO:
Just started to work with Linux, recently, after much research I was pointed to Ubuntu as a good distribution to start with. Giving it a shot I managed to get one laptop running 8.04...