[arch-general] Samba: Access Denied

[Madeye]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:12:36 -0400
Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com> 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 at 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 at server ~]$
> 
> 
> Just incase this is the issue: the permissions on /home/admin (the
> admin folder specifically) are
> 
> [admin at server home]$ ls -l
> total 4
> drwx------ 5 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:53 admin
> [admin at 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



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