I've posted this here because I know the advice on the samba list will be to update to samba-3.0.23b from previous posts there, however it appears there is no ebuild for that in todays sync and I'm not conversant enough with doing my own to update that way.
Further I'm guessing several people here are running samba-3.0.23a without this write problem... so rather than argue with developers on samba list who will just tell me to update and see if problem is still there, I'm asking for help here from any savvy samba users running the current build available on portage. I'm able to see and navigate to the linux shares from a winxp box, but not able to write to the share. I've defined the share to have write abiltity like this in smb.conf: [smWinBk] comment = "" valid users = reader Harry path = /anex2/win_bk/ writeable = yes guest ok = yes The log from an attempt to write to the above share shows there is no write priviledge: (I'm not sure where the log actually starts for this attempt but will include a few lines showing the Write=no- (Samba logs are basically unintelligable far as I can tell)) The line of note is marked off with asterisks and I've included one before and after. Following the write info line, and dozens of lines further along we finally see the denial, also marked off with asterisks. I've opened a text file named AlienSkin.txt and attempted to alter its contents using a winxp editor and working from a winxp box. Can anyone here tell me what might be causing the write failure? I see no evidence of authentication or password problems so guessing that isn't an issue here. ============================ [2006/08/25 11:04:42, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(147) unix_mode(AlienSkin.txt) returning 0744 *** [2006/08/25 11:04:42, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352) Harry opened file AlienSkin.txt read=Yes write=No (numopen=1) *** [2006/08/25 11:04:42, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_set_kernel_oplock(167) linux_set_kernel_oplock: got kernel oplock on file AlienSkin.txt, dev = 308, inode = 3989, file_id = 1 [...] snipped about 65 lines [2006/08/25 11:04:48, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(147) unix_mode(AlienSkin.txt) returning 0744 ***** [2006/08/25 11:04:48, 3] smbd/open.c:open_file(278) Error opening file AlienSkin.txt (Permission denied) (local_flags=2) (flags=2) [2006/08/25 11:04:48, 3] smbd/error.c:unix_error_packet(90) unix_error_packet: error string = Permission denied **** [2006/08/25 11:04:48, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(146) error packet at smbd/trans2.c(2682) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
