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Muhnamana
Asked: 2012-02-28 17:38:53 +0800 CST

Unable To Write To Samba Home Directories

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So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write access.

In my samba config, I have set the this line read only = no, thus granting access to write to my home directories. Restarted samba in terminal using sudo restart smbd and no such luck.

Is there somewhere else I need to enable write access? I also added create mask = 0775 and directory mask = 0775 but I'm not too sure what that is doing.

Any suggestions?

EDIT I created a test share and was able to write to the share. My test share is /home/username/Pictures But when trying to write from the home directories, access denied.

home-directory permissions samba 11.10 share

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    Well it seems like the create mask = 0775 and directory mask = 0775 was causing the problem. I'm not familiar with the permissions and exactly what they do but I ended up fixing it by commenting out those lines.

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