[mdlug] Questions about samba

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, May, Mat <MCMay at rgis.com> wrote:
> Hopefully you guys can help me out.  I have a file system on a Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux system that I need to copy over to a Windows 2003
> server.  I have created a samba share of the directory on the Linux
> server and can access it from the Windows server, but because of some of
> the file permission on the Linux side I am getting an "access denied"
> error.
>
> The permissions on the files in question are -rw------.  Does anyone
> know of a switch or anything that I can do from the Windows side to give
> me access to copy "root only" file?
>

Unless both systems are using a directory service like LDAP to
associate user accounts between them you have to give read permission
to others (-rw----r-) and probably set "map to guest = bad user" in
the smb.conf file.