Share write permissions

[jadechessink]

been trying to make a anonymous share for my internal networking and ive been having some issues setting it so that everybody can write to it. its visible just fine, but it seems like root is the only one able to write to it, can somebody point me in the WRITE direction?

i havent changed much in the global section since i wasnt sure if i needed to, but this is mostly defaults here.

samba share testparm:
[global]
dns proxy = No
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
map to guest = Bad User
max log size = 1000
netbios name = HOMESERV
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
server role = standalone server
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
syslog = 0
unix password sync = Yes
usershare allow guests = Yes
idmap config * : backend = tdb
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777


[Share]
comment = Plex Share
guest ok = Yes
path = /data/
read only = No



server fstab entry:
//192.168.1.2/Share/ /data/ cifs rw,guest,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,nosetuids,noperm 0 0

[jadechessink]

i also tried a very basic version as follows with no change:
# Global parameters
[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/%m
map to guest = Bad User
idmap config * : backend = tdb


[Share]
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
guest ok = Yes
path = /data/
read only = No

[Morbius1]

I'm a little confused by your post.

Does each client user from his own machine access this server with the same fstab statement:

//192.168.1.2/Share/ /data/ cifs rw,guest,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,nosetuids,noperm 0 0

If so you need to take possession of the mounted share by specifying the owner:

//192.168.1.2/Share/ /data/ cifs rw,guest,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,nosetuids,noperm,uid=XXXX 0 0

XXXX can be a username like "uid=morbius" or it can be the actual uid number which in my case would be "uid=1000"

[jadechessink]

Hello Morbius,

all clients have that, i removed UID since its anon and didn't change functionality when testing.

[Morbius1]

I don't understand your post. The uid on the client side cifs mount has nothing to do with the it being a guest share or not. Cifs is a virtual filesystem. Without specifying the uid or using something like dir_mode / file_mode a cifs mount with have owner = root and permissions of 755. Writeable only to root.

[jadechessink]

Changed the Fstab to have a UID and GUID and i still only get read/executable permissions:

//192.168.1.2/Share/ /data/ cifs rw,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

0 drwxr-xr-x 2 james james 0 Mar 16 17:44 'Web Development'

[Morbius1]

Changed the Fstab to have a UID and GUID and i still only get read/executable permissions:

Not to james.


"nobody" does have write permissions on the /data folder on the server, right? I'm talking about Linux permissions here.

On the server run the following command:

ls -dl /data

When this is executed on the client:

//192.168.1.2/Share/ /data/ cifs rw,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

The only user the server sees is the guest account which is literally "nobody" on the server. So the Linux permissions on the server has to be 777 in order for an actual write to take place.