Steve, thanks. Your tip makes mounting the share easier. I found what I believe was the problem, so I'll share it in case someone else has the same troubles, and browses upon this thread... I read somewhere that you can only set permissions on Win XP machines that are formatted to use the NTFS file system. Mine was FAT 32. So I changed my file system type to NTFS without data loss by executing: "convert c: FS:NTFS /V" And viola, whatever I say dmask is, it is! Regards, --James
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:18, James wrote: > Thanks for the speedy reply. Sorry if the word 'permissions' is > incorrect. > I did as you suggested below, making the appropriate changes for my > network. Then I executed > mount /home/samba > and it mounted the share without error, but it was still not writeable. > The directory changed from drwx------ (unmounted) to dr-xr-xr-x > (mounted). I added dmask=0700 th the line that I added in /etc/fstab > between "gid=500" and "credentials..." Then the mounted directory was > dr-x------. > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:45, Simeonidis, Steve wrote: > > I haven't played with permissions much but I've got the following > > line in my /etc/fstab file and it works fine. > > > > > > //abinidi/common /abinidi/common smbfs > > uid=500,gid=500,credentials=/etc/smbmount_passwd,workgroup=SGL-AUS,rw 0 0 > > > > The content of the smbmount_passwd is > > username = xxxxxxx > > password = xxxxxx > > > > owned by root. > > > > > > > > I hope that helps. > > > > Thanks > > > > Steve Simeonidis > > Network Engineer, Spherion Education > > Spherion Group Ltd > > > > 1st Floor, 493 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia > > Phone: +61 3 9243 2382 Fax: +61 3 9820 2010 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The information contained in this email and any attachments to it: > > (a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any > > interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is > > unauthorised and prohibited; and > > (b) may contain personal information of the recipient and/or the sender as > > defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Consent is hereby given by the > > recipient(s) to collect, hold and use such information and any personal > > information contained in a response to this email, for any reasonable > > purpose > > in the ordinary course of Spherion's business, including forwarding this > > email internally or disclosing it to a third party. All personal > > information > > collected by Spherion will be handled in accordance with Spherion's Privacy > > Policy. > > If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and > > delete > > it. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:30 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Samba] Samba share is not writeable > > > > > > I am having difficulty with Windows shares mounted with smb on my linux > > machine. The mount directory will not have write permissions for anyone, > > no matter what. The mount directory that I use is /home/samba. It has > > 0700, or drwx------ permissions when it is not connected to Samba. It is > > owned by the user jhall, and the group root. When I mount it, if I use > > dmask 0777, I get dr-xr-xr-x. If I use dmask 0700, I get dr-x------, and > > so on. The subdirectories have the proper dmask, and thus are writeable. > > > > The shared directory on my Win XP Pro box is SharedDocs, and jhall has > > full permissions in this directory. > > > > Below is an example of my shell commands and subsequent output: > > > > [root@laptop jhall]# ls -l /home > > ##See that the dir samba is writable by jhall > > drwx------ 37 jhall users 4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall > > drwx------ 2 jhall users 4096 Nov 27 11:09 samba > > drwx------ 21 stephie stephie 4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie > > > > ##This is how I mount the share > > [root@laptop jhall]# mount -t smbfs -o > > user=jhall,uid=jhall,gid=root,dmask=0700,fmask=0777 //desktop/SharedDocs > > /home/samba > > Password: > > > > [root@laptop jhall]# ls -l /home > > ##Now it is mounted, and I can read and execute everything that > > ##is on my shared windows directory, but can only write things that > > ##are in a subdirectory, because they have the proper dmask of 0700 > > ##I am logged in as jhall when I try to write to the directory. > > drwx------ 37 jhall users 4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall > > dr-x------ 1 jhall root 4096 Nov 24 11:54 samba > > drwx------ 21 stephie stephie 4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie > > > > [root@laptop jhall]# smbumount /home/samba > > ##I unmount the directory > > > > [root@laptop jhall]# ls -l /home > > ##And again have write permission > > drwx------ 37 jhall users 4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall > > drwx------ 2 jhall users 4096 Nov 27 11:09 samba > > drwx------ 21 stephie stephie 4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie > > > > I hope that this is enough information. Any help is appreciated! > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba