[plug] smb

[russ powers]

That did it Tony.

Thanks to all for the help.

russ

--- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony at cantech.net.au>
wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, russ powers wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using smb to share drives on a linux machine
> > (suse7.2). From win2000 The drive can be read but
> not
> > written: "Access is denied"
> > 
> 
> If I understand you correctly:
> You linux box (Suse) is exporting /smb_mounts/backup
> as a samba share called 
> "backup".  From the windows client you can read data
> in that directory but
> writing always fails with: "Access is denied"
> 
> > smb.conf
> > [backup]
> >    comment = Public Stuff
> >    path = /smb_mounts/backup
> >    public = yes
> >    writable = yes
> >    printable = no
> > 
> > [linux2]
> >    comment = Public Stuff
> >    path = /linux2
> >    public = yes
> >    writable = yes
> >    printable = no
> > 
> > So I assume smb is working? Maybe it is the mount
> of
> > the drive in fstab?
> > 
> > /dev/hdb1  /smb_mounts/backup  vfat  defaults   1 
>  2
> > /dev/hdb2  /linux2             ext2  defaults   1 
>  2
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Probably, uou need to specify on the mount for
> "/smb_mounts/backup" to ensure
> that users can write to it.
> 
> mount -t vfat -o,rw,gid=100,umask=007 /dev/hdb1
> /smb_mounts/backup
> 
> Can the account that the win2k user is using
> actually write to that filsystem
> when on the local machine (thereby eleminating samba
> from the equation)
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
> /*
>  * "The significant problems we face cannot be
> solved at the 
>  * same level of thinking we were at when we created
> them."
>  * --Albert Einstein
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> 
> 
> 
> 


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