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| Author: | rkshack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | samba permissions problem |
When I try to write to /myth from my windows pc via samba I get a permissions error. I think the permission is set to 755 but I am not 100%. I looked at the samba info under webmin and thats where I saw the 755. Rkshack |
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| Author: | graysky [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: samba permissions problem |
rkshack wrote: When I try to write to /myth from my windows pc via samba I get a permissions error. I think the permission is set to 755 but I am not 100%. I looked at the samba info under webmin and thats where I saw the 755.
Rkshack What user account are you connecting up with? If it's mythtv you should sufficient privs to do whatever. Did you mess with the conf file? |
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| Author: | rkshack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: samba permissions problem |
graysky wrote: rkshack wrote: When I try to write to /myth from my windows pc via samba I get a permissions error. I think the permission is set to 755 but I am not 100%. I looked at the samba info under webmin and thats where I saw the 755. Rkshack What user account are you connecting up with? If it's mythtv you should sufficient privs to do whatever. Did you mess with the conf file? I have not messed with the conf file. I am logging in with mythtv/mythtv. |
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| Author: | graysky [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:00 am ] |
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Ah! Are you trying to write to /home/mythtv ? If so you'll need to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf and change the read only = yes line to read only = no. Code: ; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next ; parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them. read only = no I just tested read/write/delete on /myth on an out-of-the-box fresh install of R5.5 and indeed all three work. That said, there are some directories under /myth that the user mythtv cannot write to and this is true if you try it from a shell. As well, you'll be unable to make a new file or dir under /myth due to the file permissions on myth which only allow the mythtv user to read and execute files. Are you familiar with UNIX file permissions? The following is not meant to be scarcatsic, just informative (it's hard to tell the level of UNIX/LINUX knowledge folks have): If you do a Code: $ ls -lh / You'll get a list of all the dirs in the system. Notice the stuff in front of /myth: Code: drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K Aug 30 08:57 myth
The "d" means directory root:root means the owner is root and the owner's group is root rwxr-xr-x assigns the permissions for: owner | owner group | everyone else |rwx|r-x|r-x| That means the owner (root) can read, write, and execute the owner's group and read and execute, but not write and everyone else can also read and execute My point is, if you're trying to make a new file or dir under /myth logged in (via samba or otherwise) as mythtv, you'll get denied. You can make the dir under /myth as root, the change owners to mythtv (see the chown command, syntax is, chown mythtv:mythtv /myth/dirname) You can look up the man pages on google or from the shell on the following for more: chown chmod I'd also recommend googling for the terms "basic linux file permissions" or something similar. Again, the above wasn't meant to be sarcastic, just informative. |
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