Greetings,

 

I have my new box set up. Everything is working fine. I do however want to establish permissions for my shares so that only one computer/user can read and write while others can just read.

 

I have a workgroup at home, small network. I enabled the SMB share, put the workgroup there (on the server) and from the other computers I can see my shares that I have exported.

 

Now I went and created two new users -> pictures_read and pictures_readwrite. I set the permissions for that share to Private and set the users accordingly to read and read/write.

 

Saved all changes

 

Server: TITANIUM

Domain: NIDEN

Windows box: CARBON

 

When I go to my windows machine and navigate to the server, I can see my new share. I double click, a security popup appears to type the credentials.

 

I tried

 

NIDEN\pictures_read

TITANIUM\pictures_read

 

but I get access denied. The password is correct, I even deleted the user and recreated it, emptied the password etc.

 

Any pointers are more than welcome.

 

Leave the domain/machine name off. Username should be just pictures_read.

Sadly it didn't work. I will reboot the box just in case and try again.

FWIW, I also had issues when I first setup permissions on shares, but once I got the server to accept the user/pass all has worked flawlessly since. I don't exactly remember what did it, but it think I mapped a drive once and that solved it.

At least now I am getting a different error - the resource is already mapped with another username/pass. Oddly enough no drives mapped to that resource.

 

Another reboot incoming, this time for the windows PC.

 

I will let you all know how it goes.

A quick note.

 

This has been resolved. It appears that Windows had somehow cached the folder credentials, even though I disconnected the drives.

 

A reboot on the windows machine solved this and now only one machine has read write access and all other ones have just read access.

 

Thanks!