[Wylug-help] FC, Samba, and permissions problems

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Wed Feb 25 11:38:26 UTC 2009


I now have

[reef]
	comment = Reef shared folder
	path = /user/remote/reef
	writeable = yes
 	browseable = yes
 	guest ok = yes
	guest only = yes

However, I still cannot access the share and still get the same error message

In the global section I have 'guest account = gary'


On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:27:52 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I tried dropping guest ok and guest only. It asked for a password then
> failed exactly the same way.
> Putting guest ok and guest only back and removing valid users and force
> user still failed, but did not ask for a password
>
> 'gary' has been added using smbpasswd
>
> Gary
>
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:12:07 John Leach wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:36 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem
> >
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > The samba config is unclear about the behaviour of "guest ok" with
> > "valid users".  Try dropping the valid users line.
> >
> > John.
> >
> > > I've set security to share, and then set up the following share
> > >
> > > [reef]
> > >         comment = Reef shared folder
> > >         path = /user/remote/reef
> > >         writeable = yes
> > >         browseable = yes
> > >         guest ok = yes
> > >         guest only = yes
> > >         valid users = gary
> > >         force user = gary



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