[WBEL-users] Samba Issues

[Scott Heisler]

I already re-applied the Unix level security (CHMOD)
Mangle case is off
Allow user to delete read-only files is off

Since this is a production box, and in use by 30+ people, I'd like to
understand the "force-user" function better before trying it.  Can you
please explain what it does?

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Raul pitti [mailto:rdpitti@globaltecsa.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:39 AM
To: Scott Heisler
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Samba Issues


Scott Heisler wrote:

>I have a WBEL30 server in place.  It replaced dieing RH 8 server.  Anyway,
>the here's the issue:
>
>RH8 had Samba 2.x, WB has Samba 3.x
>The server I replaced only serves one purpose, it hosts the files used
(data
>& program files shared) for the time clock software (used for payroll).  It
>does not do anything other than this (no printing, ftp, etc).
>On the old server (RH8) there were no issues or problems.
>Now, on the WBEL, I have issues where the time clock software can't replace
>files.  It can write new ones all day long but can't replace files while in
>the software.  If I use MS Word, though, I can overwrite files all day
long.
>I can brose to the location and rename & delete files, without problem.
>Why, just inside this application, does this occur.
>
>As a further test, I copied the entire file set (3.6 gig) to a Windows 2000
>server as a test.  The problem did not occur there, only on the WBEL
>machine.  I went through all of the possible settings under Webmin and Swat
>and couldn't find anything that should be a problem.  I also went through
>the security from SSH and re-applied a 777 security setting to all files
and
>made sure Samba had full access as well.
>
>While I know that this post could be for a samba mailgroup, they aren't
that
>familiar with WBEL so I thought I would start here.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions or help.
>Scott
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Hi Scott!
I can help you !
try to check permission on the unix side (chmod  ### directory -Rv)
and then try to force the user used by samba to write on the files.  
Check for the samba directive
force user = <username>
inside the share definition.


Other thing that can be causing problems is the mangle of the cases.
IS the timeclock program running on windows ?

Regards!
RP