Samba Connecting, cannot transfer files

[Keith Smith]

Thanks!!  Able to ping and see vhosts on that VM.  It is set to bridged.



On 2015-07-26 10:09, Stephen Partington wrote:
> 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/ [1]
>>> /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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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
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