chmod 775 public
  -or-
chmod g+w public

permission bits need to be:
drwxrwxr-x

David Demland wrote:
> I am part of the smb group. the directory looks like:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     smb          4096 Oct 21 23:19 public
> 
> Yet I can not write to the directory.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Eric
> "Shubes"
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:28 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Samba Question
> 
> 
> David Demland wrote:
> 
>>I re-installed my Debian box, so I backed off all my Samba configuration
>>files. After re-installing I have Samba running but I have two issues and
> 
> I
> 
>>have not be able to fix them.
> 
> 
>>Before, the group of a file created on the
>>Samba share was smb. There is now no smb group.
> 
> 
> Did you add (define) a group named "smb" to Linux?
> 
> 
>>Also I can not write to the
>>drive. What am I missing?
> 
> 
> Is your user a member of the "smb" group?
> 
> What are the permissions/ownership of the directory to which you're
> trying to write?
> 
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