Setting up a *very* relaxed samba config

[gushy]

Guys,

I've got a situation where I would normally use NFS, but cannot. So in it's place I need to use a samba share (even though it's linux -> linux). I need it completely open and world writeable as if I had done an rw in an NFS export.

I thought I had it as when logged in as a user I can edit delete etc. however the apache user seems to be struggling with creating files.

Here's my smb.conf as it stands.

[global]
	workgroup = WGRP
	server string = Samba Server Version %v
	security = user
	passdb backend = tdbsam
	unix extensions = no

[tmp]
	comment = Temp Directory
	path = /var/tmp
	public = yes
	guest ok = yes
	writeable = yes
	browseable = yes


[sites]
	comment = Sites Directory
	path = /var/www/sites
	public = yes
	guest ok = no
	write list = siteusr
	writeable = yes
	create mask = 0777
	browseable = no
	security mask = 0777
        directory security mask = 0777

* note that the drive is mapped as user siteusr

Any ideas as to what I can do to open it up more?

Thanks.

[scott32746]

Hello,
Not sure but try changing to [sites]
write list = @siteusr

then
# service smb restart

[gushy]

Not seen that before, I'll give it a go thanks.

[Doug G]

You might also look at forceuser. You can force the share to operate as a particular linux user account no matter what user opens the share. I don't think samba shares can override underlying linux permissions, but I could be wrong ..

[gushy]

forceuser sounds like it might do the trick. I'll give that a go too, thanks.

[gushy]

adding uid= and gid = to the fstab line did the trick, although now I'm just hoping that no-one other than apache needs to write to the share!