I gave up. Apparently, it is impossible to mount an NTFS partition and then share it by any means that a Windoze client can use. I even tried a trial run of an NFS client for XP - no dice. It simply refuses to be authenticated.
The solution is to re-format to Ext3 which seems ironic since this (now SMB) share has network distributions exclusively for Win clients. Oh well. Now the files are RWX as required. Since there are service packs with about a gb of small files this would have been a good experiment for ReiserFS but that's for another day. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list