How to add permissions to windows user in samba on ubuntu server

Question

I have this samba network drive configured in ubuntu server for my windows computer and i want to make it so i can read/write but other users can not read or write to the network drive. How can i edit the smb.conf so i can do this?
this is my smb.conf at the moment:

[share]
    comment = Ubuntu File Server Share
    path = /srv/samba/share
    browsable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    read only = no
    create mask = 0755

Nasir Riley · Answer

To be thorough:

First, create a samba user if you haven't already:

useradd sambauser
smbpasswd -a sambauser

Enter and confirm the password for sambauser.

Change that part of your /etc/samba/smb.conf to this:

[share]
comment = Ubuntu File Server Share
path = /srv/samba/share
valid users = sambauser
browsable = yes
writable = yes
write list = sambauser
create mask = 0755

Make sure that the directory and everything that might be inside has the proper ownership and permissions:

chown -R sambauser:sambauser /srv/samba/share
chmod -R 755 /srv/samba/share

Make sure that you have allowed samba through selinux with this command if it is enabled. If selinux is not enabled then you can skip this part:

chcon -R -t  samba_share_t /srv/samba/share

Lastly, make sure that the ports are open for samba on the firewall.

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=445/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=139/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload
systemctl restart firewalld

If using `iptables:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
iptables-save
iptables-restore

Restart the samba service and then log in with the credentials of sambauser.

Eric Jurgens · Answer

Turn off guest permissions and log into the shared drive with the owners credentials from the SAMBA machine to which owns the folder.

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