SAMBA Read Only problem

Hello,

I have a perculiar problem, I have installed RH9 and configured SAMBA. The
perculiar part is Users if the login from some computers they get read only
file and if they access from another computer with the same user id and
password to the same file, it is ok? They are connecting to the SAMBA
server with windows 98.

What could be the problem. can someone help me?


Kind regards,

Leslie

Are they accessing the same file at the same time?

Leslie Roger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a perculiar problem, I have installed RH9 and configured SAMBA. The
> perculiar part is Users if the login from some computers they get read only
> file and if they access from another computer with the same user id and
> password to the same file, it is ok? They are connecting to the SAMBA
> server with windows 98.
>
> What could be the problem. can someone help me?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Leslie
>
>

Leslie Roger wrote:

> I have a perculiar problem, I have installed RH9 and configured SAMBA.
> The perculiar part is Users if the login from some computers they get read
> only file and if they access from another computer with the same user id
> and
> password to the same file, it is ok? They are connecting to the SAMBA
> server with windows 98.

Samba can work with guest logins. If a user is not recognised and guest
access is allowed in smb.conf, the client is still permitted access, but as
a special guest user. Possibly, the guest user has no write access.

So, try disabling guest access. Then log in again from the clients. Then, if
something goes wrong with authentication, you will see an error message.

Other ideas:
- check the logs in /var/log/samba, possibly after increasing the debug
level in smb.conf
- use tcpdump to analyse what client and server say to each other
- post your smb.conf here so that we can analyse it
- check the access rights of the shared directory (use ls -l)

Best regards
Onno