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Able to read but not write to samba share

Asked by Sidarth Dasari

I just reformated many of my drives on my home server to ext. When they were ntfs I used the umask 000 option so all the drives were writeable and readable to everyone. Insecure, but since it a private network it was not a big deal. However, there is no similar option with ext. I changed to permissions of my drives using "chown -R sid"
All computers accessing the samba shares have the user name sid and the same password, however I cannot write to any of the shares. Is there something I am missing?

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#1

I actually am able to write to the drives from my windows machine, howerver using the same samba shares, I cant from my linux laptop (running ubuntu as well). All three computers have the same username and password

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello Sidharth

By default the only user who will have write permission to any samba share is the root user. Since you are likely not logged in as root, you will only be able to read the share not write.

These links may provide you more info:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255872&highlight=samba+mount+permanent

http://www.mattvanstone.com/2007/11/automatically-mounting-windows-smb-shares-in-ubuntu-v3/

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#3

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.