On Friday 13 April 2007 13:35, Wackojacko wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2007 13:10, Wackojacko wrote: > >> Randy Patterson wrote: > >>> Hey, > >>> > >>> I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb > >>> Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting > >>> through Samba. the permissions on the share in the Win Box, an NTFS > >>> partition, is set to allow full control to my user login. I have > >>> mounted the network share to a local directory on the Deb system > >>> /home/randy/wwwroot. The only problem is I can't write to the > >>> directory. I have read about the lack of write support to an NTFS > >>> partition so am I to understand that this applies when using Samba as > >>> well or is there a way I can get around this problem? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Randy > >> > >> How are you mounting the samba share on the debian box? AFAIK you need > >> to specify the mount options to allow write access for your user, the > >> default is read only. This is not a limitation of NTFS write as the > >> host win box does the writing to the disk. > >> > >> HTH > >> > >> Wackojacko > > > > Here's my mount command executed from /home/randy; > > > > smbmount //myserver/wwwroot wwwroot -o > > usernane=myusername,password=mypassword,rw > > > > Just to mention again 'myusername' was permission set to full control on > > the wwwroot directory on the win box. > > > > Thanks, > > Randy > > Have you tried the dmask and fmask options to smbmount to force the > mounted filesystem to be writeable? I think this is how linneighborhood > does it. > > Also, on the win box (XP here) in `sharing and security` tab of the > properties for the shared folder I tick `allow users to modify files` or > something similar. > > HTH > > Wackojacko
That worked! I just changed the command above by removing the 'rw' and replacing it with "fmask=0777,dmask=0777" and it worked. Thanks so much for the help! Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]