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    Help with samba

    Hi all, after some help with Samba, I have it installed and semi working.

    I can share stuff in windows and mount and use it fine on my linux box.

    I can also put folders into my smb.conf file and see them and their contents and use them from windows, however i cannot create or modify files in them from my windows box and to create and modify files in them from my linux box i have to be logged in as root.

    I would like to make it so that these folders have full read/write access from windows and also so that a normal user can write and modify them in linux (not just root).

    I am using samba 2.2.8a with slackware 9.1 and kernel version 2.4.22.
    Samba was installed as a package with slackware rather than being added seperatly.

    Any ideas on how to do this would be usefull.

    Thanks
    Col

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    Perhaps you need to chmod the folders?
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    I have chmodded them to 755, is that incorrect?

    The smb.conf file is set up so they are writeable and read only = no.

    Cheers
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    755 is current user (root) readwriteexecute, current group readexecute, all users readexecute

    i.e. only root can do any writing

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    aha so i need to chmod 777 so everyone can readwriteexecute?

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    Woo, made it 777 and it works fine now, thanks mate.

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