i have samba share set up to give me access to my linux box from my windows 7 machine, everything is fine, except i can't access the /var director for some reason through windows. however, i can access every other directory no problem
I the error i get when i try to access the /var directory is:
Z:\var is not accessible.
Access is denied.
I am using centos 5.5
root is the allowed samba user. and here is my samba configuration:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = SAMBA
server string = Samba Server %v
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
preferred master = No
local master = No
dns proxy = No
security = User
# Share
[root]
path = /
valid users = root
read only = no
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
here is my list of my root directory permissions & ownership
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 16:35 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 May 18 16:36 boot
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3960 May 18 20:12 dev
drwxr-xr-x 55 root root 4096 May 19 02:05 etc
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 May 19 02:05 home
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 May 18 17:59 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 18 16:31 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 2010 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 18 19:40 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 2010 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 86 root root 0 May 18 20:11 proc
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 18 20:10 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 16:36 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 May 18 20:11 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 2010 srv
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 May 18 20:11 sys
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 May 19 01:28 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 May 18 16:34 usr
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 May 18 17:51 var
am i doing something wrong? or is this a centos security thing?