SAMBA: Win7 sees shares and files, but can't add, create or

[RDK]

Folks....I'm having a problem with SAMBA. My Raspberry Pi has Raspdian as the OS (recommended). I have a home network with several Windows 7 PC all networked (and happy).

I have installed SAMBA on my Pi and it is working, kind of!!!! That is, my Windows 7 PC's see the share and also the files in the same. They can be copied to the PC and opened without issues. HOWEVER, I can not create, add or delete files from the share. Below is the

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sudo testparm -s

and several

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ls -l /mnt/usbdrive

relating to the shared Pi folder and files.

Before I display the above output, I need to add that the users (all Windows 7 users are also Pi users with the same password) and all are also SAMBA users. Now the interesting part, the home directory for each user is also shared and shows up on Windows and it WILL (note emphasis) allow added, created, and deleted files.

• xxx@yyyRasPi ~ $ sudo testparm -s
  Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
  rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
  Processing section "[homes]"
  Processing section "[printers]"
  Processing section "[print$]"
  Processing section "[usb]"
  Loaded services file OK.
  Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
  [global]
  workgroup = 1234567890
  server string = %h server
  map to guest = Bad User
  obey pam restrictions = Yes
  pam password change = Yes
  passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
  passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
  unix password sync = Yes
  syslog = 0
  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
  max log size = 1000
  dns proxy = No
  usershare allow guests = Yes
  panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
  idmap config * : backend = tdb
  
  [homes]
  comment = Home Directories
  valid users = %S
  read only = No
  create mask = 0775
  directory mask = 0775
  browseable = No
  
  [printers]
  comment = All Printers
  path = /var/spool/samba
  create mask = 0700
  printable = Yes
  print ok = Yes
  browseable = No
  
  [print$]
  comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
  path = /cdrom
  guest ok = Yes
  locking = No
  preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
  postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
  
  [usb]
  comment = USB Share
  path = /mnt/usbdrive
  read only = No
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777
  guest only = Yes
  guest ok = Yes
  
  xxx@yyyRasPi ~ $ ls -l /mnt/
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 usbdrive
  
  xxx@yyyRasPi ~ $ ls -l /mnt/usbdrive
  total 24
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 175 Aug 27 17:35 hosts
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12340 Aug 27 07:55 usbdrive

So what am I doing wrong with my "USBDRIVE" share? I have run

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sudo chmod 0777 /mnt/usbdrive

and it seems to have not effect.

Thanks...RDK

[thagrol]

Is your USB drive formatted as one of the FAT varients (e.g. FAT32)?

If so check what mount options you're using, especially umask, dmask, fmask, and maybe uid. Also check that the partition is being mounted rw and not ro (applies even if not FAT).

The "mount" command will lst all current mounted drive along with their mount options.

[RDK]

thagrol....Thanks for the info. I solved the issue, but I guess you would say I cheated. I installed SWAT, the SAMBA web configuration utility. Logged in as root and specified the existing SAMBA userid's as "Valid users" and "voila" now everything is working.

Regarding your suggestions, the USB key was formatted as FAT32 and is 16GB.

I looked at the Mount listing and it showed

• /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbdrive type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

I'm not sure what all of that means - but I'm reading....

Permissions on my /mnt folder and related files are unchanged:

• drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 usbdrive

SWAT seems to have added these two lines to smb.conf

• valid users = userA, userB, pi
  admin users = userA, pi, root

Thanks again....RDK