Samba Connecting, cannot transfer files

[Stephen Partington]

Also make sure that your network is set in such a way that you can ping and
see your VM. ( i have wanted to put my head into the wall because i let
virtualbox put a VM on nat that i was expecting to be bridged.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I remember right, samba doesn't follow regular *nix permissions.
> Try running the command:
> smbadduser
>
> to get your user name and password in.  Use those credentials when you
> login to transfer files and see if it works.
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Mint 17 KDE.  I've uploaded Virtualbox and created a vm
>> using CentOS 6.6.  On the CentOS 6.6 VM I installed Samba.
>>
>> I created a user on the VM and created the same user as a Samba user.
>> I created a directory off root : /work
>> smb and nmb are both running.
>> in the /etc/samba/smb.conf I:
>> 1) set the workgroup - I do not think this is necessary since I am
>> connection from Linux.
>> 2) commented out all the cups references
>> 3) added the following lines:
>>
>>   - path = /work
>>   - writable = yes
>>   - browseable = yes
>>   - read only = no
>>
>> SELinux is disables
>> IPTables is disabled
>>
>>
>> I have the exact same config on a laptop running CentOS 6.6 and it works
>> fine.  Only difference is the laptop mounts and connects to Samba from the
>> fstab.
>>
>> To connect to the Samba share on the VM I issue the following command
>> from my desktop's command line:
>>
>> sudo mount -t cifs -o user='username' //192.168.20.51/work/
>> /mnt/centos6    (command line on my desktop)
>>
>> It mounts and I can view the /work directory in Dolphin on the the parent
>> (mint 17 KDE desktop).
>>
>> I cannot upload files though.
>>
>> To test I : chmod -R 777 /work   which did not help.
>>
>> I checked the Samba logs and they contain almost nothing - no errors are
>> being logged.
>>
>> I've scoured the internet and am finding no solution.
>>
>>
>> Tied:
>>
>> create mask = 0755
>> create mode = 0660
>> directory mode = 0770
>> force create mode = 0660
>> force directory mode = 0770
>> force user = keith
>> force group = keith
>>
>> which did not make a difference.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas are much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>>
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