Read only samba share after upgrade

[tabanus]

I use samba on a gentoo server to share some directories to a couple of Ubuntu clients. Since the upgrade to samba-4.2.9 I'm having trouble connecting with write permissions.

I can mount the folders as an anonymous user, but not via the command line

In the Ubuntu fstab I have:

[gerdesj]

There is almost certainly another change apart from the version upgrade. Anyway, assuming you want to go back to using your Staff user:

Ensure the Staff password is set correctly (pdbedit or whatever)

Fix up permissions on the share
#chown -Rvf Staff:users /mnt/Shared/Data
#chmod -Rvf u=rwx,g=rxs,o= /mnt/Shared/Data

You could instead use "find -type d -exec chmod ..." to do the g=rxs bit instead so that only directories get the s bit. It will ensure that future files get the "users" group.

In smb.conf:
[public]
comment = shared
path = /mnt/Shared/Data
guest ok = NO
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
force user = Staff
force group = users
wide links = yes

Samba works just like Windows albeit with a lot more flexibility. The share defines in smb.conf are near enough equivalent to the shares in Windows but you must also get the file system permissions correct as well.

guest ok = yes is rarely what you want, especially for user data.

Cheers
Jon

[tabanus]

Thanks for the suggestions, but it didn't work.

For now I've rolled back to samba-3.6.25, and everything's working OK again.
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