Can read but cannot write to Samba share
I'm trying to set up a Samba share that is only accessible by a particular user. I'd like that user to have read/write access to all files in the share.
The smb.conf file below will let me access the share through the one user 'patrick' but I can't get write access to work - I cannot modify or delete files on the mounted share via windows. The user does have the proper permissions set for the directory per below.
How can I enable read/write access? I do not want to change the directory/file permissions to 0777 like many of the other forum posts would suggest.
Directory permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 6 patrick patrick 4096 Jul 3 2015 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 1 2015 ../
drwxrwxr-x+ 15 patrick patrick 65536 Jan 22 00:01 music/
The smb.conf file:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
# wins support = no
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
server role = standalone server
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
pam password change = yes
map to guest = never
usershare allow guests = no
[Music]
comment = Music on Ceres
path = /mnt/largemarge/music
valid users = patrick
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = no
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0755
force user = patrick
Solution 1:
After hours of searching, I discovered that the share name and the share directory cannot be the same (and it's not case-sensitive, either). See this post on serverfault.
So, if I change my share name in smb.conf from:
[Music]
to
[Tunes]
I can both read and write to the share. No other changes to my smb.conf were necessary, and no need to chmod 0777.