FC, Samba, and permissions problems

[Gary Stainburn]

I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem

I've set security to share, and then set up the following share

[reef]
        comment = Reef shared folder
        path = /user/remote/reef
        writeable = yes
        browseable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        guest only = yes
        valid users = gary
        force user = gary

I've also got the matching directory structure

ls -ld / /user /user/remote/ /user/remote/reef/
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2009-02-24 18:17 /
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2009-02-24 17:26 /user
drwxr-xr-x  3 gary gary 4096 2009-02-24 17:26 /user/remote/
drwxr-xr-x  2 gary gary 4096 2009-02-24 17:26 /user/remote/reef/

However, when I try to access it from a WinXP machine I get the following 
error both on the Windows PC and the Samba logs.

[2009/02/25 10:29:40,  0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1156)
  '/user/remote/reef' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to 
[reef] Error was Permission denied

Anyone know what I've missed?

Gary

[Sam Sharpe]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've set security to share, and then set up the following share
>
> [reef]
>         comment = Reef shared folder
>         path = /user/remote/reef
>         writeable = yes
>         browseable = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         guest only = yes
>         valid users = gary
>         force user = gary

<snip>
> However, when I try to access it from a WinXP machine I get the following
> error both on the Windows PC and the Samba logs.
>
> [2009/02/25 10:29:40,  0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1156)
>   '/user/remote/reef' does not exist or permission denied when 
> connecting to
> [reef] Error was Permission denied

Do these options not conflict?:

guest only = yes
        valid users = gary

You are saying the only user who can connect is gary and unless you have defined your guest user as called gary (guest account = gary) then I think you are denying the connect. Try taking out the "guest only" directive and see what you get, or alternatively change your "valid users" to include the name of the guest account (nobody?).

--
Sam

[James Wilkinson]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem
>
> I've set security to share, and then set up the following share

Is SELinux enabled? Have you checked for SELinux errors? Have you
reviewed the SELinux Samba booleans? I think they were in
system-config-security on Fedora 9: they’re on system-config-selinux on
Fedora 10.

Hope this helps,

James.