How to set permissions for HDD access?

**Aaron053191** · January 13th, 2012

Ok everyone, on to my next problem.

I am trying to copy files to the HDD that is in my server from a Windows 7 PC.

Here is what pops up on Windows

Here is what is written in my Samba config file.

[SDB HARD Disk]
comment = public folder
path = media/sdb1
public = yes
writable = yes --- Just a hunch, shouldn't this line let me move files around?
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force user = SuperUser
force group = homeusers

All I tried to do was drag a photo from my desktop to the server to test if it would let me transfer files, and it would not.

Everything Linux is unknown to me right now. I have never had any association with it, but I thought it would be worth a shot to have some extra data storage and gain some experience. I appreciate all of the help that may be provided.

-Aaron

**arrrghhh** · January 13th, 2012

Originally Posted by Aaron053191

Ok everyone, on to my next problem.

I am trying to copy files to the HDD that is in my server from a Windows 7 PC.

Here is what pops up on Windows

Here is what is written in my Samba config file.

[SDB HARD Disk]
comment = public folder
path = media/sdb1
public = yes
writable = yes --- Just a hunch, shouldn't this line let me move files around?
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force user = SuperUser
force group = homeusers

All I tried to do was drag a photo from my desktop to the server to test if it would let me transfer files, and it would not.

Everything Linux is unknown to me right now. I have never had any association with it, but I thought it would be worth a shot to have some extra data storage and gain some experience. I appreciate all of the help that may be provided.

-Aaron

Well, let's start with a simple setup. You can "see" the share, so that's a good start. Let's modify the share a bit:

Code:

[SDB HARD Disk]
comment = public folder
path = /media/sdb1
public = yes
writable = yes
guest account = nobody
guest ok = yes
create mask = 777
directory mask = 777

I added a few things, removed a few things... I think the most important piece is the path = however, I bolded it. You should have a forward slash before media, /media/sdb1...

After making that change restart smb and try again:

Code:

sudo service smbd restart

**Aaron053191** · January 13th, 2012

I made those following changes, restarted SMB. Then I attempted to drag the file to the server once again. Yet, it is still telling me I do not have permissions to do so.

**arrrghhh** · January 13th, 2012

Originally Posted by Aaron053191

I made those following changes, restarted SMB. Then I attempted to drag the file to the server once again. Yet, it is still telling me I do not have permissions to do so.

Hrm...

This is insecure, but if you trust everyone on your LAN, change

Code:

security = user

to

Code:

security = share

in smb.conf.

Also, perhaps you should try restarting nmbd...

Code:

sudo service nmbd restart

Of course if you made a change to smb.conf, you should restart smbd again as well.

If you'd like to read where I'm getting this from, here's the pages I'm using:

https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/server...ileserver.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba

Edit - as a troubleshooting step, paste the output (in [ code] braces) of your complete smb.conf, and the result of these commands:

Code:

testparm

Code:

smbtree

Hopefully some others will chime in, I'm far from an expert with samba... (you might want to put something about samba in the title, otherwise people won't know

) I typically just do the Webmin configuration and forget about it

.

**Morbius1** · January 13th, 2012

It may not be permissions by Samba. It may be permissions by Linux.

What are the ownership and permissions of the target shared folder:

Code:

ls -dl /media/sdb1

**Aaron053191** · January 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by Morbius1

It may not be permissions by Samba. It may be permissions by Linux.

What are the ownership and permissions of the target shared folder:

Code:

ls -dl /media/sdb1

Thanks for the help, I re-installed Ubuntu and followed a tut on howtoforge.com

I used the ls -dl /media/store (changed due to tut)

and it looks it is owned my root if I am not mistaken.

It says exactly drwxrwrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-1-13 7:01

I'm pretty sure I need to change the ownership or something?

I am sorry, I have found that I am following step by step tutorials and it is not teaching me exactly what I am looking at because I am acting as a programmed robot that is simply repeating a command.