Yes, the permissions of the folders being shared have a great effect on whether people can access them. Their users and groups also matter.
This does not mean you should jam 777 on everything! There's a reason it's not working, figure out what their permissions are and what your users can access and what permissions they actually need.
What are the permissions and ownership of the dir that can't be accessed?
I am running AIX 7.1 and currently we have samba 3.6.25 installed on the server. As it stands some AIX folders are shared that can be accessed by certain Windows users.
The problem is that since Windows 10 the guest feature no longer works so users have to manually type in their Windows login/pwd... (14 Replies)
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I want to connect to two samba shares both on the same Linux box but each with a different username from a windows server 2008. I created 2 gpos to connect and I can connect to the shares individually via net use command, but once I entered credentials for one of the shares, it seems I... (1 Reply)
I have an issue with my Samba share - I am unable to write to it, edit a file or rename a folder etc within Windows.
I am using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 and this is my Samba config.
I can connect to the /sylius directory no problem (no password required), but I cannot save to it.
Is... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to configure samba share permission so that only directory creator/owner has a read and write permission and other users should not have any read/write access to that folder.Will that be possible and how can this be achieved within samba configuration.
Regards,
Sahil (1 Reply)
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I have recently taken control of a number of RHEL5.3 servers that have samba shares setup on them and are authenticating using pam and winbind. My issue is that any user that has an active directory account can currently log in to the linux boxes using their ad credentials. I need to... (0 Replies)
Hello friends ..
I have configured "smb" in debian machine . Created a share named "share_one" with public access and started samba service .
I am able to access the share "share_one" directly without any difficulty on linux machines.
But when it comes to windows it asks for username... (1 Reply)
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I've installed Samba on an AIX machine and configured smb.conf to have a bunch of shares available to Windows. I can see the shares, but I couldn't access them.
After about 30 minutes of chmod'ding if finally got access by doing the following to the directories I shared:
chmod -R... (2 Replies)