Help with Samba

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Tue May 22 18:01:34 UTC 2007


    Hi Folks.  I'm trying to setup Samba and having a bit of a 
problem...  However, I'm not sure if it's a Samba issue, or NFS issue.  
The setup is as follows:

    Server 1  --> exports /storage/ftpusers
       In that folder, there are numerous user folders that are owned by 
each specific user.


    Server 2  --> nfs mounts server1:/storage/ftpusers as /mnt/ftpusers
       At the same time, it also has /mnt/ftpusers setup to be shared 
through Samba as follows:

    [ftpusers]
       comment = Client FTP
       browseable = yes      
       writable = yes
       path = /mnt/ftpusers
       guest ok = yes
       public = yes       
       read only = no


    Server 3 (which is a windows box) will then get onto //server2/ftpusers


    The problem I'm having is that I can't write anything inside any of 
the user folders that's within /ftpusers from the windows box.  My guess 
is because the WniBox accesses it as a guest user, where the folder are 
owned by real users.  I need to be able to do this so we can place files 
for our clients into their respective folders (from within our network - 
hence the convoluted way of doing things.)

    Suggestions?

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