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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Smb.conf config help Post 302955908 by Corona688 on Wednesday 23rd of September 2015 11:27:27 AM
Old 09-23-2015
Who is allowed to access what files is still limited by ordinary Linux file permissions, so that has to be set up carefully. Your users must login to Samba as users allowed to access the right files, and Samba must create their files with permissions which allow them to be used later.

A globally anonymous "everyone else" user is tricky. If you have any control over windows account names, I'd make the anonymous ones all "student" or something (and renaming a Windows account after it's created does NOT actually change the username!) and give more proper logins, names without capital letters or spaces, to people who authenticate with a real username and password.

Getting permissions right means deciding what Linux filesystem permissions you want the files to end up with and configuring Samba to enforce that. If you want one group of users to have read-write access and another to have read-only access, you want the files to be created with rw-rw-r-- permissions and to all belong to a group you create, perhaps share or the like.

You also want the directories to be rwxrwsr-x and belong to the share group, so that files created in it belong to the group.

As a start, perhaps append something like this to your smb.conf :

Code:
[Share]
path=/path/to/fileshare
create mask = 664
# Set sticky bit on new folders people create
directory mask = 2775
writeable = yes

Then add a user by these shell commands:

Code:
# Add user as a UNIX user.
useradd username
# do NOT give them a UNIX password.
# give them a Samba password.
smbpasswd -a username

The password you give Samba must match their Windows login password. Then restart Samba and see if they can browse to \\servername\share, and see what permissions any files and folders they create become with ls -l in Linux.

I'm researching how to do the anonymous/guest user without password.

Post the smb.conf you already have so we can tell what else needs to be changed.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-23-2015 at 12:35 PM..
 

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SMBGET(1)							   User Commands							 SMBGET(1)

NAME
smbget - wget-like utility for download files over SMB SYNOPSIS
smbget [-a, --guest] [-r, --resume] [-R, --recursive] [-u, --username=STRING] [-p, --password=STRING] [-w, --workgroup=STRING] [-n, --nonprompt] [-d, --debuglevel=INT] [-D, --dots] [-P, --keep-permissions] [-o, --outputfile] [-f, --rcfile] [-q, --quiet] [-v, --verbose] [-b, --blocksize] [-O, --stdout] [-?, --help] [--usage] {smb://host/share/path/to/file} [smb://url2/] [...] DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite. smbget is a simple utility with wget-like semantics, that can download files from SMB servers. You can specify the files you would like to download on the command-line. The files should be in the smb-URL standard, e.g. use smb://host/share/file for the UNC path \\HOST\SHARE\file. OPTIONS
-a, --guest Work as user guest -r, --resume Automatically resume aborted files -R, --recursive Recursively download files -u, --username=STRING Username to use -p, --password=STRING Password to use -w, --workgroup=STRING Workgroup to use (optional) -n, --nonprompt Don't ask anything (non-interactive) -d, --debuglevel=INT Debuglevel to use -D, --dots Show dots as progress indication -P, --keep-permissions Set same permissions on local file as are set on remote file. -o, --outputfile Write the file that is being downloaded to the specified file. Can not be used together with -R. -O, --stdout Write the file that is being downloaded to standard output. -f, --rcfile Use specified rcfile. This will be loaded in the order it was specified - e.g. if you specify any options before this one, they might get overriden by the contents of the rcfile. -q, --quiet Be quiet -v, --verbose Be verbose -b, --blocksize Number of bytes to download in a block. Defaults to 64000. -?, --help Show help message --usage Display brief usage message SMB URLS
SMB URL's should be specified in the following format: smb://[[[domain;]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]] smb:// means all the workgroups smb://name/ means, if name is a workgroup, all the servers in this workgroup, or if name is a server, all the shares on this server. EXAMPLES
# Recursively download 'src' directory smbget -R smb://rhonwyn/jelmer/src # Download FreeBSD ISO and enable resuming smbget -r smb://rhonwyn/isos/FreeBSD5.1.iso # Recursively download all ISOs smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/isos # Backup my data on rhonwyn smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/ BUGS
Permission denied is returned in some cases where the cause of the error is unknown (such as an illegally formatted smb:// url or trying to get a directory without -R turned on). VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite. AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. The smbget manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij. Samba 3.5 06/18/2010 SMBGET(1)
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