Samba Directory Permissions

[al]

I have my Samba share setup on my server and it works fine for my WinXP computers.They can read+write to the share with no problem.

However when i try to write to the share from my Gentoo box(having mounted the share using LinNeighborhood)it takes a very long time then reports an error.
The files do get written to the share but the file permissions are all wrong.

For example the following file has these permissions on my Gentoo box:

[gentoo_dude]

if the shared folder (disk or partition) is on the linux box then you don't have to mount it using linneighborhood. What i did was to edit my fstab and add it there, since my partition is ext3 fs. It mounts at boot time and i don't have any problems writing on it from windows or linux.

[barbar]

I guess you want

[al]

gentoo_dude:

The samba share is on a different computer.

barbar:

I tried force create mode 0766 and it does indeed set the file permissions but it still takes an age to write to the share resulting in an error:

[barbar]

I nerver used LinNeighborhood but try to mount the share with cifs instead of smbfs.

[gentoo_dude]

Try adding at your [public] configuration the following option:

[al]

[nobspangle]

first of all you need to change your security to user
then you need to setup some samba users
then you need to disable guest access

Unless you do this you won't be able to give different users different permissions because the samba server sees them all as the same user.

[al]

Thanks nobspangle

I will try that approach tomorrow,too late tonight-12:38AM

One thing i have noticed is that when i mount a samba share it actually changes the permissions of the local directory im mounting to.
I didn't know that could happen.

Anyway off to my bed