Hi I've been struggling a lot with Samba on Centos 5.5 lately.
I develop in Windows 7 and send files through scp (ant task), but it's to slow and wanted to setup thoroughly samba.
After installing and following some guides I've done the following:
Disable firewall (iptables)
Disable SelLinux (didn't do that at the start, but didn't help either)
setup my smbusers file to map my windows user to root (root = "Tahir Malik" -- works)
added a current user mitco to the sambapassdb with the command smbpasswd -a mitco , because the windows user had only read access
So both the users have read access to my share. Here is my smb.conf snippit:
[global]
workgroup = MITCO
server string = Samba Server Version %v
netbios name = centos
; interfaces = lo eth0 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24
; hosts allow = 127. 192.168.12. 192.168.13.
[alf4]
comment = Alfresco 4
path = /opt
read only = no
valid users = mitco, mitco
force user = root
force group = root
admin users = mitco , mitco
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
What also maybe important is that the /opt is only writable by root, but that shouldn't matter because I use the force user and group or admin users.
The log file :
[2012/09/29 07:43:44, 0] smbd/server.c:main(958)
smbd version 3.0.33-3.39.el5_8 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
[2012/09/29 07:43:59, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1085)
mitco-tahir (192.168.13.1) connect to service alf4 initially as user root (uid=0, gid=0) (pid 5228)
