Another thing to look at is you user. You should have a
/SAMBA/PUB/lib/user.map file which maps you windows network login to an MPE
login.

eg.

Pete = MGR.APACHE

One of my web servers was growling at me today until I added the entry above.

Hope this helps,
-Pete

At 03:15 PM 7/7/00 -0400, Porter, Allen H wrote:
>This came at just the right time because I'm struggling with the same issue.
>I have a share set up and I can copy files from that group to my hard drive
>but not the other way around.  I've set guest account = mgr.samba and have
>the share defined exactly as your example but it still gives me Access
>denied errors when I try to copy a file to that directory in Windows
>Explorer.  I set up a posix folder within the group and that folder works
>fine.  Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Allen
>
>Maritz Marketing Research INC
>636.827.6833
>
> > Hi Chuck,
> >
> > At 11:42 AM 7/7/00 -0500, Chuck Ryan wrote:
> > >Just a couple of questions:
> > >
> > >1)      Is there an easy way to force the server read the changes made to
> > >the smb.conf file immediately?
> >
> > inetd.net.sys '-c'
> >
> > >2)      Is it possible to have a writeable share in an account other than
> > >SAMBA? I have no problem creating shares under the /SAMBA/SHR directory,
> > but
> > >cannot get it to work in for other accounts no matter what I do to the
> > >security setings. I thought I saw some discussion of this not too long
> > ago,
> > >but could not find it in the archive.
> >
> > [APACHE]
> >
> >    comment = Apache
> >    write ok = yes
> >    guest ok = no
> >    browseable = yes
> >    create mask=0777
> >    delete readonly=yes
> >
> >    path = /APACHE/PUB
> >
> > This should work, make your you have PM capabilities on your Samba
> > account,
> > PUB.SAMBA group, & MGR.SAMBA user.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete
> >