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I try to setup a samba file server, but whatever I do I can't get write access to work (reading works fine). This is my current situation:

I have a local fileserver with 3 harddisks mounted at /mnt/share/disk<nr>. 2 of these use the ext4 filesystem, the third one is ntfs. This file server runs Fedora 18 32-bit. The root folders of these harddisks are owned by superman:superman, and testparm outputs the following:

[global]

workgroup = WORKGROUP

netbios name = FILE_SERVER

server string = Samba Server Version %v

interfaces = lo, eth0, 192.168.123.191/8

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

max log size = 50

unix extensions = No

load printers = No

idmap config * : backend = tdb

hosts allow = 192.168.123.

cups options = raw

wide links = Yes



[share]

comment = Home Directories

path = /home/share/

write list = superman, @users

force user = superman

read only = No

create mask = 0777

directory mask = 0777

inherit permissions = Yes

guest ok = Yes

I've tried a lot to get this to work: the disk are chmodded to 777, I've tried turning off selinux, I've added the samba_share_t label to the disks and as can be seen in the above output I tried to make the smb config as permissive as I could, but still I cannot write to the share (tried from Windows 7 and another Fedora installation).

What can I try to be able to write to the shares?

EDIT: The replies I got so far are mostly concerned with the smb.conf. I have however tried a lot of different setup, ready made configs, and solutions to similar problems for the smb.conf file, so I suspect that the real problem is somewhere else.

You say the root directory is owned by user superman but also group superman. Is that not a problem? If superman is member of the group users you should make the group of the root directory users (and force this for all other users) or else all other users will not have access.

So force the shared directories to superman:users.

After that you could also try changing/adding the following:

valid users = @users

create mode = 0660

directory mode = 0770

force create mode = 0660

force directory mode = 0770

force user = superman

force group = users

This is, if superman is a member of group users. If not then add superman to valid users.

You might want to take a look at how you have /mnt/share/disk linked to /home/share.

The path that you have in SMB.conf doesn't match what your mount points are for the drives.

If you are using a symbolic link you might want to check the permissions there.

for what it is worth, I couldn't access my samba share, maybe you have forgotten to add you username to the samba password group (for lack of beter description phrase)

this is what I did to get mine to work

smbpasswd -a username

after by using nautilus, shared my drive/folder with right-click, sharing, etc.

create your password, and use your username and passsword (which you just entered) to access your samba drive, you can also map this drive in Windows

hope this could help

Are the group and owner of the shared folder set properly for the samba user? Should be the same, or try

$ chown -R nobody:nogroup sharedfolder

for testing purposes...

I had the same problem. from xp i had complete access while W7 showed read and write permission, but could not actually create new files or edit existings. I had:

read only = no  

already in the smb.conf

by adding

writeable = yes 

(beware! not writable ) windows7 can modify existing files and create new files.

The reason can be SELinux.

Try to disable it temporarily and check again.

How to disable: https://www.tecmint.com/disable-selinux-temporarily-permanently-in-centos-rhel-fedora/

Hot to setup: https://www.lisenet.com/2016/samba-server-on-rhel-7/

You need to use samba_share_t in semanage command.