Samba Share - no permissions from Windows

[PP02]

Hi. It's been a long time since I last used Linux, slackware and I think x-windows had recently been released!

I've been asked to help out a mate's company. They had a XP machine sharing some folders on two internal hdd's to 4-6 XP / Win7 workstations.

The XP had some issues so they asked if I could install Linux which I've done. I used Fedora. I've got the two internal NTFS drives (with current data) running and auto mounting at startup under /mnt/Dump1 and /mnt/Dump2.

I've installed and setup Samba using system-config-samba and added the users and specified the Windows username to /mnt/Dump1 /mnt/Dump2

The workgroup is correct (WORKGROUP).

The windows machines will find the shared folders but any attempt to use them gives a "You don't have permissions please contact your system administrator". This also applies to the users home directory.

Would this be because of the way they are mounted? Because they are NTFS?

 

[postaled]

Samba permissions do not override the OS permissions. Are the folders they are mounted in setup with the correct permissions?

 

[PP02]

I'm at home at the moment. But from memory the /mnt/Dump1 /mnt/Dump2 both had chmod 777 full permissions with Root as the owner.

ach. Wait. Does /mnt have full permissions as standard?

 

[KillerBee]

It could be SELinux perms if it is set for Enforcing

Run the following command to check if SELinux is running:
# getenforce

You can temporarily disable it by running
# setenforce Permissive

Also run "testparm" to check your config
and check the "/var/log/samba/smbd.log" for clues

 

[PP02]

Thanks vtx - will try that when I'm back in the office on Tuesday.