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Darren
Asked: 2010-11-06 13:59:52 +0800 CST

How to write to Samba folder?

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I created a Samba share on my CentOS machine and I can connect to the share and read the contents but I cannot write files to it or delete them.

In Samba I have set readable to yes and writeable to yes, as well as made the folder I want to access apart of the wheel group of which I added the user that is accessing it from Samba.

The folder in quesiton is /var/www/. I have set that folder and all folders under it to the wheel group which can read and write to it.

What am I doing wrong here?

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1 Answers

  1. For a folder in Samba to be writable ALL the following have to be true:

    • Share must be configured in Samba to be writeable
    • User must exist in Samba password database (did you copy your UNIX users to Samba users using mksmbpasswd?)
    • User must appear in list of allowed users
    • The specific subnet that the user is accessing from must appear in the list of allowed networks (i.e. if the user's IP is 192.168.2.8/24, the allowed network must be 192.168.2)
    • The backing directory of the share must have appropriate permissions (i.e. be owned by the UNIX user:group that the Samba user maps to and/or the chmod must be high enough)
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