On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:12:36 -0400 Eric Griffith <egriffith92@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I'm trying to figure out why Samba won't allow me to share the > folder: > > /home/admin/data > > on my home server; but it will share: > > /home/ > > just fine. > > /home/admin/data is chmodd'ed 777 because its gonna be the 'public > share' folder with nothing personal in it, the user is admin, the > group is users. Whenever I try to access the folder from my laptop TO > the server; I get "Access Denied" > > Relevant SMB.conf section: > > > [Public] > path = /home/admin/data/ > available= yes > browsable = yes > public = yes > writable = yes > create mask = 0777 > guest ok = yes > > [admin@server ~]$ ls -l > total 12 > drwxrwxrwx 2 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:09 data > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 12:58 ftp > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 13:49 http > [admin@server ~]$ > > > Just incase this is the issue: the permissions on /home/admin (the > admin folder specifically) are > > [admin@server home]$ ls -l > total 4 > drwx------ 5 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:53 admin > [admin@server home]$ This is where the problem lies. You need to have execute permissions on that folder for everyone. (or users depending on which user is accessing the sub folders). > > > So could the problem be that /home/admin's permissions wont allow me > to share a subfolder, even though the subfolder's permissions are > fine? If so; what would be an okay permission setup to use for > /home/admin so that I CAN share /home/admin/data, without letting > everyone have access to my overall /home? > > The reason im doing Samba instead of NFS is because there's windows > machines on the network as well -- \Madeye - The box said to install Windows 95 or better, so I installed ARCH Linux! ---------------------------------------------------------- - Registered Linux user #167944 since 2000-02-28 (｡◕‿◕｡) - ---------------------------------------------------------- - Jabber: @@ madeye at jabber dot org @@ - ----------------------------------------------------------
