Forgive me for being a newbie!
(Also forgive me for taking 20 edits to get the formatting right.. first time for this, but I figured it out)
I've deprecated an old Windows Server 2012 machine. I managed to stumble through about 90% of my Ubuntu 24.04 Server setup, but have discovered an odd thing with Samba (I've seen "millions" of "odd things" looking at forums). I'm sure you all have answered "millions" of them, too.
So, I managed to get Samba up and running, with logins from windows clients working and the ability for shares to be rwx, and proper permissions. However, my personal storage share I configured will not let me write to the "top level" folder of my Samba share.
I'm working on replicating windows redirected Documents folders, which is my use case here. The goal is to have users be able to see folders, access their own folders, but not access other user's SMB folders.
I've successfully set up the file/folder permissions from the command line for all users.
(for reference, smb groups have been created for some public shares, those are fine. I've used -e when I created the smbusers, and also restarted smbd after making changes. Many times.)
Samba Version 4.19.5-Ubuntu
I have 4 users. Other users seem to be able to write to their "user" directory, but mine can't.
Truncated smb.conf below:
[sean]
path = /mnt/storage/userfolders/sean
read only = no
browsable = yes
valid users = sean
force create mode = 0666
force directory mode = 0777}
ls -l for top level permissions, chown with -R to provide inheritance. Inheritance to lower folders is successful, I'm not adding it here to prevent a mile long thread:
drwxrwx---+ 27 sean sean 4096 May 22 17:01 sean
getfacl:
# file: sean
# owner: sean
# group: sean
user::rwx
user:sean:rwx
group::rwx
group:localuser:rwx
group:localuserro:r-x
mask::rwx
other::---
default:user::---
default:group::---
default:mask::---
default:other::---
(I intend on removing the group permissions once I get this sorted out. I did have this working flawlessly on Ubuntu 22.04 before deciding to do a wipe and reinstall to 24.04. Yes, being new means really f'ing things up on occasion).
However, when I log in on my Windows 11 client, I receive the error:
"You need permission to perform this action." when I try to create a new file.
If I cd to the next level down (say sean/Bartons Docs) and attempt to create a new file from my Windows client, it works as expected. New file can be created and deleted.
getfacl for Barton:
# file: Bartons Docs
# owner: sean
# group: sean
user::rwx
user:sean:rwx
group::rwx
group:localuser:rwx
group:localuserro:r-x
mask::rwx
other::---
default:user::---
default:group::---
default:mask::---
default:other::---
ls-l for Bartons Docs
drwxrwx---+ 2 sean sean 4096 May 16 21:19 'Bartons Docs'
I suspect I'm missing something on the top level "sean" folder that is available on others, but I'm pretty stumped.
I'm soooo close to replicating the Windows server experience in a workgroup environment! And I'm proud to have done so with zero Ubuntu experience 3 months ago.
Any insights and help is appreciated. My bro is a Ubuntu/Linux guy and he's stumped as well.
Thanks everyone. I'll be unavailable for a few days, but will check back after the long weekend. Again, thank you! I'm starting to love Ubuntu! But small things like this finally caused me to break down and ask for community help.
