How to grant write permissions in Samba?

Posted by Eric Fossum on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Eric Fossum
Published on 2011-03-20T03:14:52Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 8:17 UTC
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I'm having trouble with read/write permissions on my Samba server, how do I fix my smb.conf and file permissions to have a more unified access?

smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = LnxNAS
server string = %h
wins support = no
dns proxy = no
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

[homes]
comment = Home Directories

[Video]
path = /data/eric/Videos

[Music]
path = /data/eric/Music

[Pictures]
path = /data/eric/Pictures

[data]
path = /data

my ls -l of /data/eric/Pictures

drwxrwxrwx 2 ericfoss root     4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Android Projs
drwxrwxrwx 3 ericfoss root     4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Automotive
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root     2439 2010-12-17 17:03 BDD reduction.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root     2722 2010-12-17 16:55 BDD Tree.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root     7341 2010-12-17 16:46 BDD Tree.xcf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root    72421 2007-11-22 22:59 Bum Ninja.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root    32152 2010-12-17 21:25 cell transition.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root    40212 2010-12-17 17:55 control graph.png
drwxrwxrwx 2 ericfoss root     4096 2011-03-13 22:09 Crap
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ericfoss root       82 2010-09-20 17:18 desktop.ini
ericfoss@SERVER:~$

If I try to delete \Server\Pictures\Crap it says permission denied, but \Server\data\eric\Pictures\crap can be deleted... I thought security = user took care of this?

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