Kurt Granroth wrote:

> On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 10:42 PM, Jeff Barker wrote:
>
>> I don't want anyone to be able to unmount it, there would be no 
>> reason for that. I just want it shared to everyone on my local 
>> network and be readable AND writeable.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Yeah, I read all that. I tried both options and that doesn't give the 
>> proper permissions to the drive, it only allows the user to unmount 
>> and remount it. I know there's gotta be someone else who uses samba 
>> to share a drive as a storage drive for multiple windows machines.
>
>
> Yes, that's pretty much samba's entire reason for being.  I've shared 
> many a Linux drive to Windows machines using it.
>
> There are a number of gotcha's that you have to look out for.
>
> First, don't bother trying to mount or unmount any of the ext drives 
> as any particular permissions.  It doesn't matter.  What matters is 
> the permissions of all the files and directories on the drive.  As 
> long as all of the files and directories are world read and writeable, 
> then everything will be fine.... well, it will be if you also remember 
> to set 'public = yes' and 'read only = no' in your smb.conf file.
>

ok, here's what my smb.conf file looks like. Does this look about right?

-----------------------
[global]
   workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
   server string = "Samba"
   hosts allow = 192.168.5. 192.168.14. 127.
   netbios name = mynetbiosname
   load printers = yes
   printing = cups
   log file = /var/log/samba.%m
   max log size = 50
   security = share
   encrypt passwords = yes
   ssl CA certDir = /etc/ssl/certs
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   wins support = yes
   dns proxy = no
   guest account = myuser

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = yes


[Home]
   comment = Home
   path = /home/myuser/home
   browseable = yes
   public = yes
   guest ok = yes
   writable = yes
   force directory mode = 0777
   create mode = 0666

[Media]
   comment = Media
   path = /home/myuser/media
   browseable = yes
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   force directory mode = 0777
   create mode = 0666

[Storage]
   comment = Storage
   path = /home/myuser/storage
   browseable = yes
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   force directory mode = 0777
   create mode = 0666


[win_c]
   comment = Windows Directory
   path = /home/myuser/win_c
   browseable = yes
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   force directory mode = 0777
   create mode = 0666
-----------------------

the home share is a whole drive that is ext2
the other 3 are all vfat

I was able to chown myuser:users all 4 mounted locations recursively. 
(each of these shares are all hard drives mounted in fstab)

> Second, if you start out the drive with all directories 777 and all 
> files 666, then things should be fine at first.. until the first 
> person on a Windows machine writes to the drive.  Then, the inherited 
> permissions of the logged in samba user starts to take precedence.  I 
> know that in various times, I solved this problem in a few different 
> ways.  Once, when I was also exporting the drive via NFS, I resorted 
> to having a cron job do a chmod -R 777 every so often.  Another time, 
> when the drive was *only* used as a Windows Share, I mapped all 
> incoming uids and guids to the same thing.
>

ok, here's the issue I have with that... after chowning everything 
myuser:users, I tried to chmod 777 each mount point and only the ext2 
one would take. chmoding the other 3 did nothing. They all stay 
drwxr--r-- which seems to work fine in linux and samba... I can write 
just fine from windows. So now, it's just the "Home" share I'm having 
problems with. So I logged in through SSH su'd to root and began testing 
it. I can't copy anything into the drive from the other drives even with 
root... I get this error:

cp: cannot create directory `./blahblah dir': Input/output error

So.... I'm dropping away from samba for now and just trying to get the 
permissions on these mounted drives to work properly inside linux before 
starting to deal with samba....

PS... here's what the folder structure looks like in the users home 
directory:

drwx--x--x    7 myuser  users        4096 Sep  7 23:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Sep  6 16:33 ../
-rw-------    1 myuser users        1151 Sep  7 21:58 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--    1 myuser users        3394 Sep  6 16:33 .screenrc
drwx------    2 myuser users        4096 Sep  6 16:34 .ssh/
drwxrwxr-x    3 myuser users        4096 Sep  7 23:21 home/
drwxr--r--   16 myuser users       16384 Dec 31  1969 media/
drwxr--r--    5 myuser users       16384 Dec 31  1969 storage/
drwxr--r--    9 myuser users       16384 Sep  7 23:28 win_c/

and here's my fstab file:

/dev/hda1        /home/myuser/win_c    vfat  
rw,uid=myuser,gid=100,dev,exec,auto 1   0
/dev/hde1        /home/myuser/media    vfat  
rw,uid=myuser,gid=100,dev,exec,auto 1   0
/dev/hde2        /home/myuser/storage  vfat  
rw,uid=myuser,gid=100,dev,exec,auto 1   0
/dev/hdg1        /home/myuser/home     ext2  
users,suid,dev,exec,auto,rw,async 1   0

should I change all these options to "defaults"?