The options
read
only and
writeable (or
write
ok ) are really two ways of saying the same thing, but approached from opposite ends. For example, you can set either of the following options in the
[global] section or in an individual share:
read only = yes
writeable = no
If either option is set as shown, data can be read from a share, but cannot be written to it. You might think you would need this option only if you were creating a read-only share. However, note that this read-only behavior is the
default action for shares; if you want to be able to write data to a share, you must explicitly specify one of the following options in the configuration file for each share:
read only = no
writeable = yes
Note that if you specify more than one occurrence of either option, Samba will adhere to the last value it encounters for the share.
