I have a new, "simple" installation here and i can't get user write permissions to work at all. Centos 7 / Samba 4.2.10 / Windows 7 Professional pertinent info: [global] security = user passdb backend = tdbsam map to guest = Bad User guest account = imager browseable = yes unix extensions = no [reports] path = /var/www/html/reports writeable = yes guest ok = yes write list = imager create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 =============================== [root@kioskserver html]# ls -l -d /var/www/html/reports drwxr-xr-x 8 imager imager 4096 Feb 27 12:48 /var/www/html/reports =============================== [root@kioskserver html]# smbstatus lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters Initialising global parameters rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384) Processing section "[global]" Samba version 4.2.10 PID Username Group Machine Protocol Version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 37951 imager imager 172.16.2.145 (ipv4:172.16.2.145:59227) SMB3_00 37791 imager imager 172.16.2.141 (ipv4:172.16.2.141:59546) SMB2_10 Service pid machine Connected at ------------------------------------------------------- reports 37791 172.16.2.141 Mon Feb 27 15:58:30 2017 Registered MSG_REQ_POOL_USAGE Registered MSG_REQ_DMALLOC_MARK and LOG_CHANGED Locked files: Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37791 501 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /var/www/html/reports . Mon Feb 27 15:58:48 2017 37791 501 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /var/www/html/reports . Mon Feb 27 15:58:52 2017 [root@kioskserver html]# =============================== Windows properties on "reports" folder: "Everyone" and "Unix Group\imager" show only read permission. "Account Unknown" (which i assume to be Unix User/imager) shows read/write privileges. Perhaps the "Account Unknow" is causing this issue? =============================== OK, so here's my problem. When i try to create a new folder inside /var/www/html/reports I get a "You need permission to perform this action" error. If I change the reports folder to have group write permission, then everything works just fine. It's as if it is ignoring my owner permissions and only looking at my group permissions. This is such a basic Samba configuration but I just can't seem to get it to work. Other than telling me I'm a complete idiot (which may be true at this point), anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much!
Update: Changed owner of "reports" folder to ftp and changed all smb.conf settings from "imager" to "ftp". Widnows properties on "reports" folder now shows owner properly but still can't write to file. Owner "ftp" shows that it has "full control".
Solved: for some reason, windows doesn't like my UID of imager which is 501. I created a new user with a UID of 1111 and everything works fine.
