Samba issue

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 14:12 +0000, Oliver Marshall wrote:
> Hi chaps
> 
>  
> 
> I’m trying to set up an old machine with ubuntu (10.xx lts) as a basic
> samba server to allow people to create more trash…I mean important
> files, on the network. 
> 
>  
> 
> I’m getting a problem with the public share whereby the end users (all
> windows XP and 7) get permission denied errors when trying to write to
> the share. They can see the files in there though.
> 
>  
> 
> The share setup in smb.conf is;
> 
>  
> 
> [Test]
> 
> comment=Test Share
> 
> path=/var/samba/test
> 
> guest ok = yes
> 
> browseable = yes
> 
> writable = yes
> 
> read only = no
> 
> public = yes
> 
>  
> 
> What have I missed?
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most of the details...

try
- output of 'testparm -s'
- output of 'ls -ld /var/samba/test'
- posting in plain text and not html

Craig



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