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19:15 -- sudo can not cross a redirection or a pipeline. A *sudo tee* script works: dan@dan:~$ echo "this is some text" | *sudo tee* --append /srv/samba/share/hello.txt ## NOTICE NO SUDO BEFORE PIPE . . . if ownership, group and permissions of the file and folder are unchanged. Specifically, for /srv/samba/share/, the owner:group remain nobody:nogroup, and its permissions are unchanged at 755 (drwxr-xr-x), and for /srv/samba/share/hello.txt, owner:group remain root:root, and its permissions are unchanged at 644 (rw-r--r--). Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

'force user = dan' does not do what you are saying. Quotes from vid: 13:12 -- "If we want to force one user only to authenticate, we can uncomment this and 'force user = dan'. And then comment out the 'guests ok = yes'. So . . . [I can] get rid of guest access and force user authentication or 'force user = dan'." 30:16 -- "I may need to authenticate to be able to write here. Let's try that. I will edit [/etc/samba/smb.conf] file one more time. Or I am not sure what I am missing. But let's change it slightly. Let's set 'force user = dan'. 'Guest ok = yes', [let's] comment that out, so no longer is 'guest ok' alright." The above statements are not correct. Rather, for files or directories freshly created by all users within the samba share, 'force user = dan' sets the inherited user-ownership attribute for such file or directory, and 'force group = dan' sets the inherited group-ownership attribute for such file or directory. *Instead, you need: valid users = dan* Kindest regards, neighbours and friends. P.S. The folder write problem (31:30) would still not be cured with 'valid users = dan'. P.P.S. Fixing the folder write problem, you need to modify /srv/samba/share folder attributes either by [1] changing folder permissions from drwxr-xr-x (17:35) to drwxr-xrwx . . . i.e., o=rx to o=rwx . . . or 755 to 757 using chmod o+w. or [2] changing either (a) the user-owner from nobody (17:35) to dan, or (b) the group-owner from nogroup to dan. For the preceding 2b, you would need to concurrently change folder permissions to include g+w.