Why I can not login my shared folder under samba + CentOS 7

Hi,

I install samba by:

sudo yum install samba.x86_64

I edit /etc/samba/smb.conf by adding follows：

[data]
comment = data
path = /home/myname/data
valid users = test1
write list = test1
create mask = 0754
sync always = Yes
; hide dot files = yes
; writeable = no
; browseable = yes

Then take effect my config:

service smb restart

I create shared folder:

cd ~
mkdir data

I create user:

useradd test1
smbpasswd -a test1
<then password>


Then I open my file manager and input:

smb://127.0.0.1

A login form popup, I enter username: test1 and the password, the login form returns again, I found I can not enter the shared folder by that account.

Thanks

Did you also create user "test1" in the Linux OS itself? Otherwise it won't work that way.

Hello,

Though the subject is rather offtopic for these forums, I'd guess that /home/myname/data is not owned by user test1, and the user test1 has no permissions either to read or to write into /home/myname/data.

Hi Richard,

As I post before, I have done it:

useradd test1
smbpasswd -a test1

And in /etc/passwd:

test1:x:1001:1001::/home/test1:/bin/bash

Thanks

Hi Alex,

In my system:

cd ~
ls -ld data/

drwxrwxr-x. 3 test1 myname 26 12月 2 00:20 data/

Thanks

And

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I found that if I create a folder under / as my shared folder(for example: /data), the samba work. If the shared folder is /home/myname/data, it doesn't work.

zEitEr said:

And

Code:

ls -lad ~

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ls -lad ~
drwx------. 16 myname myname 4096 12月 2 01:06 /home/myname

Thanks

nobody but user "[/COLOR]myname" has permissions to access the folder. That's it.

Do you mean that /home/myname/data inherits the permission from /home/myname?

No, I don't mean that. Read documentation from Internet if you want to know more, it's basics

https://www.linux.com/learn/understanding-linux-file-permissions
http://ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/permissions.php
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-linux-permissions
http://www.howtogeek.com/67987/htg-explains-how-do-linux-file-permissions-work/