<div dir="ltr">Hi, You need to edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf under share Definitions you may read the man page or google it for more information. but below is a sample of the config you must do: Sample #======================= Share Definitions ======================= [Public folder] comment = Public folder read only = yes path = /home/Public_folder guest ok = yes then you have to set the permission of the folder right click the Public folder --> Properties --> Permission or if your familiar with the command line: $chmod 744 Public_folder your folder should look like this: drwxr--r-- 2 ben ben 4096 2008-09-03 10:44 Public_folder Hope this help -AC <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Adam Harrison <<a href="mailto:adam.harrison@hulu.com">adam.harrison@hulu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. However, I'm not quite sure how to do what you are talking about. Could someone please email me information on how to do this. Thanks. Best, Adam Message: 10 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 02:28:54 +0530 From: "Raseel Bhagat" <<a href="mailto:raseelbhagat@gmail.com">raseelbhagat@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Server and Samba To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:f68850780809021358r1a76074ftc76a3944ef8ff7a1@mail.gmail.com">f68850780809021358r1a76074ftc76a3944ef8ff7a1@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Adam Harrison <<a href="mailto:adam.harrison@hulu.com">adam.harrison@hulu.com</a>>wrote: > Dear All, > > > > I have searched the internet and looked into the Samba documentation and > haven't been able to find an answer to this. I will admit I am a newbie when > it comes to Samba so if this is something simple please forgive me. > > > > Anyway, I have several Samba shares on various servers. I want to enable > anonymous read only access to all of these shares and then have a separate > login which allows read write access. I have setup Samba for share level > access, however this allows everyone to have read / write access. So how > would I set this up? > Why not make it a User level access, allow guest access (or maybe even public) and make it read-only in one rule. Then add valid users and read-write access to the same path in another rule. That should solve your problem. Thanks, Raseel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20080903/62722b62/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20080903/6272 2b62/attachment.htm</a> ------------------------------ -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> End of ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 20 ******************************************** -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- AC Perdon Registered GNU/Linux User #340122 </div>