Why Can't My Windows Clients Write To My Samba Shares (Unbuntu 14.04)

Linux 14.04 server set up following instructions on http://www.havetheknowhow.com

I have been trying to connect to the samba shares from two windows machines. The server is visible but when I try to connect it requests a logon and no matter what I enter it fails. I have been using webmin to set this up and the samba version is 4.1.6-ubuntu.
One note, webmin did not show any samba user groups.

all systems show "WORKGROUP" as the workgroup

I am trying to create a combined media and storage server (NAS) on my new Unbuntu server. I have a 256GB drive as my boot drive and I have two 1TB drives that are empty. I want to use the two 1TB drives as storage for some important data and also for the media that will be played/collected for my XMBC server. I want to be able to access/manipulate these shares/files/data from my Windows computers over my home network.

I have Unbuntu 14.04 and Webmin installed.

I greatly appreciate any assistance. I feel like I am running around in circles on Webmin with this.

OK this is kinda long, so I will shorten it as much as I can, as to not be long-winded.

My current network at home:
1 - CentOS 7 desktop (server)
1 - Ubuntu 14.04 desktop
1 - Fedora 21 laptop
2 - Windows 7 desktops
some other various windows boxes also that don't get used regularly, but are on the network.

My 2 Linux desktops (which I use as servers, but they really aren't) have shared folders on them, which I share to the network via Samba (CIFS). I use Samba because Linux is smarter than Windows and Windows won't read NFS, so I share them as Samba so all devices can see them.

Generally speaking, if I share the folders on each box as 0777, I have no issues. But lately I have been wanting to implement some better security, so I wanted to SETGID and chown the shared folders from the local machine to a specific group, then change the folders to 2774.

My problem is that I keep getting permissions errors when trying to connect from the other Linux machines, and sometimes the Windows machines also. My main question is: do I CHMOD 2774 the local mount-point before mounting it? Or so I CHMOD 2774 the shared folder on the other server, then mount it locally to a folder whose permissions are different? Or do I CHMOD both of them the same?

basically the uis and gid ownerships change on a local folder when I mount a shared drive to that folder, so when I try to write or sometimes read that local folder, I get permissions errors.

I can provide any additional info needed.

I have set up a SFTP which I can connect to, go to the right directory and read/write files to.

The full path is home/sftpuser/SFTP/Customer
The user "sftpuser" I am connecting with is in the group "ftpusers" which has read/write access.

That works fine.

Here is my sshd_config:
Code:

Match Group ftpusers ChrootDirectory /home/%u/
 ForceCommand internal-sftp
  AllowAgentForwarding no
  AllowTcpForwarding no
  X11Forwarding no

However, I made a samba share of the folder Customer, when I go to the IP adress on a Windows machine "\\10.0.0.1\" I can see the folder Customer, when entering it requests user/pass and afterwards gives an error: you have not the right permissions.

In Webmin:
Customer /home/sftpuser/SFTP/Customer Read/write to everyone

My smb.conf:
Code:

[global]
    syslog = 0
    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
    read raw = no
    write raw = no
    passdb backend = tdbsam
    workgroup = DOMAIN
    usershare allow guests = yes
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
    pam password change = yes
    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
    unix password sync = yes
    obey pam restrictions = yes
    passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
    server role = standalone server
    server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
    max log size = 1000
    map to guest = bad user
    panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
    dns proxy = no



[Customer]
    force create mode = 755
    browsable = yes
    public = yes
    path = /home/sftpuser/SFTP/Customer
    force directory mode = 755
    writeable = yes
    valid users = @ftpusers
    force group = ftpusers
    write list = @ftpusers

I have been struggling for 3 days and am totally out of ideas.

LS -L for the folder:
Code:

total 4
drwxrwx---+ 2 sftpuser ftpusers 4096 Apr  9 11:35 Customer

[FONT="Times New Roman"][SIZE="3"]Hi All,
I have installed the Opsi-server in centos by following this http://download.uib.de/opsi_stable/d...ble-en.pdf.The opsi server was installed successfully and the server GUI is opening through browser from existing windows machine.But not able to add the Windows clients to the opsi server.How can i add the Windows machine to Opsi Server and How to map the opsi-depot server drive into my Windows machine.

Dear All

I need your help.
I want to get a file from windows server using ftp.
Below is the script I have created but the connection is not established:

#!/bin/sh

lcd "directory in linux server"
USER="username of windows server"
PASS="password"

ftp -n "ip of windows server" <<EOF
user $USER $PASS

cd "C:\Users... directory in windows server where file is located"
bin
get test1234.txt

bye

EOF

I hope somebody can help me!
BR,

Using a Raspberry Pi w/ Debian

Read the manual and several "how-to"s and am getting nowhere

vsftp is running and making a log file. I can get to the Pi with putty or SAMBA

Ultimately want to be able to both(I) ftp in under the "pi" user to access files remotely and (II) have people sending me huge files ftp them in anonymously

Have tried (I) the ftp client in Windows 7 Internet explorer 11, (ii) the ftp client in the Windows 7 "map network drive" UI, and (iii) ES file explorer on my Android phone.

The android phone tells me there is no server there. Windows 7 gets no password challenge, gives no error indication, but does nothing useful. The vsftpd log file shows some attempt by the Windows machine, nothing for the Android.

Config file and log file attached.

The Android is trying to use port 21, the config file mentions something about port 20. Which ports do I need to forward in my router to enable remote access?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks. Jonathan

Hey guys, I got samba working and I am able to access my files, however I am now trying to learn security with it. i am pretty much trying to allow certain groups access certain files. if you look at samba group you can see that I have @sambausers group to access sambagroup directory.

I have a user called sambatest01. the user can access "samba users only" but the user can access all of the other files as well. what is a correct set up on the other smb.conf to prevent users from accessing this? I cant seem to find a proper set up


[drivers]
path = /files/drivers
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
guest only = no


[samba users only]
path = /files/sambagroup
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
guest only = no
write list = @sambausers
valid users = @sambausers

Ugh - been working on this for days

I have a SAMBA server running on a Raspberry Pi. Should be pretty much up to date - retrieved today.

Want to get Windows 7 and Android smartphones to be able to access, but neither can. Ideally, I would like to generate no password challenge, but that does not seem to be on the agenda. Windows 7 cannot seem to send the account name in a way SAMBA understands. The Android phones similarly have no luck getting credentials to SAMBA.

Tried many, many variations, read many, many pieces of advice. Most recent smb.conf attached.

FYI
1) I have tried with and without SECURITY=USER
2) did smbpasswd -an nobody
3) the share has CHMOD 775
4) testparm seems happy

Any help appreciated.

Jonathan

I've got my new system up and running. It's a nice fresh change after running Linux Mint for the past 4 years. Now comes the time of setting things up the way I like them.

As part of my setup, I have a all of my DVD's backed up onto my computer so that I can use a media server in the house. I run XBMC at my TV's with a central samba server (my computer) holding the movies.

In LM, all I had to do was right-click the directory "sharing" and select SMB share and type in the name. Everything else was done for me. This doesn't seem that simple.

Here's what I've done:
1. Menu > Administration > Samba
2. Entered in all the directories to share, under the BASIC tab I've selected visibile, writeable. Under the ACCESS tab I've selected a user (see below).
3. I've created a system user called xbmc with the password of xbmc.
4. I've created a samba user called xbmc with the password of xbmc.

Still not working. So, I went into the shell where I manually started the smb service:
# systemctl start smb.service

So, I went back to Menu > Administration > Samba > Preferences:
Set workgroup to WORKGROUP (but it automatically changes it to lower case after I exit).

Drop to terminal and restart service with systemctl.

I go over to my XMBC installation and try to connect to the source and it finds the SMB share. I click on it and after about 30 seconds a window pops up asking for login credentials. I enter xbmc/xbmc and after about 30 seconds it just cycles through. XMBC doesn't offer any messages, so I went downstairs to my Windows machine and tried to connect to a network drive. I enter in \\IP\share-name and after a few seconds it asks for login credentials. I enter xbmc/xbmc but then it fails with "bad username or password".

I'm not sure what I need to do to get this working.

Here is my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:
http://pastebin.com/m9ExpPJF

System Korora 21 (just installed/updated)
kernel: 3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64