Samba Write Access, but no Read?

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

I have a network of about six computer, and my system is the only linux box. I have samba up and running, and if the remote computers have a login on my computer, they can see my computer in network neighbourhood.

One computer with the username Mrscience, for example, can see his home directory and the server's public directory, which I share. However the computer cannot read any files in the directory. They may write, but not read, even though webmin says they have full read/write support. And all users can use my printer.

This happens for every user, here is my smb.conf:

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Check your /var/log/samba/log.smbd file... it will display any and all errors and is a good place to start looking.

Have you tried 'browseable = yes' yet?

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

that log file says the same thing over and over:

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

No help?

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Hmmm... now that I think about it I vaguely remember an ftp setup similar to this (write without a read reply). Are you sure the Windows machine isn't using cifs? Also, what about your nmbd log?

So, another thing too... you can access mr-science's computer from your gentoo machine, correct?

Furthermore, when you write does it give you a permission denied message in the logs?

And finally, try moving this around in your [global] area:

allow hosts = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.1/24 #why would you want localhost access???? and if you're in a private network you should be fine if you removed the deny hosts line... unless you have a huge _set_ of private networks that you are connected to...
deny hosts = 0.0.0.0/0
#path = /home <- global shouldn't have a path...