From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20:34:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A81937B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6B7143E6E for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thanatos@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 33083 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2002 03:34:45 -0000 Received: from 1-0-401.adsl.vcnet.com (HELO vcnet.com) (209.239.236.203) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2002 03:34:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3D928051.7080609@vcnet.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:34:41 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Scott R." Cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Simple Samba Question(?) References: <3D915FE8.3010401@sfmidimafia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott R. wrote: > [I am not currently subscribed to this mailing list, so please 'cc:' me > in any replies. Thank you.] > > I have a simple home network with one Windows XP machine and one FreeBSD > 4.6.2-RELEASE machine. I am trying to set up a Samba share on the > FreeBSD machine that the WinXP box can read/write to. I can get it to > read the share, but I cannot seem to write to it. My config file is > really simple: > > [global] > workgroup = MYWORKGROUP > netbios name = DRAGULA > security = SHARE > > [Shared] > path = /u1 > read only = No > guest ok = Yes > > Every time I try to write to the share, I get an "Access Denied" error. > I'm using Samba 3.0a19. I had this working before I moved and now I > cannot remember how I got it to work (I just remember it was a pain). > I've also searched high and low all over the net and come up with > nothing. Any help you all may be able to offer would be greatly > appreciated. > > -Scott > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hi Scott, You could try to put: writable = yes in the [Shared] section. Also, does the user you are connecting with have the correct permissions to write to /u1? I have XP connecting to a samba server on FreeBSD 4.6.2, I can both read and write from my home directory. Hope you figure it out, Thanatos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message