Which flavor of XP does your wife run? If it's XP Pro, then go to Start ->
Run ->
(and type in) Control keymgr.dll
This will bring up a dialog box that will let you pass credentials to the Linux
box automatically.
Sadly, XP Home and MCE don't have this option, though you could still make a
batch file using the "net use" command and have it map a drive by dropping it in
her startup folder.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Monner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Write permissions in Samba share
Justin,
Attached is my smb.conf file, which shares each user's home
directories such that you can write them from Windows. I just set this
up a couple days ago to share files between my host Ubuntu OS and
WinXP running in vmware, and it worked beautifully. I suspect the part
you might be missing is "security = user". The one thing you'll need
to do is run "smbpasswd" for the linux user your wife will be
connecting as; that user will need to have access to the files in
question.
Good luck!
--
Derek Monner
Ph.D. Student & Graduate Assistant
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
301.405.2775
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Justin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is probably extremely simple; I'm just not getting it.
I have a linux fileserver at home, and I've set up my home directory as a
samba share so my wife can get at my music and pictures that I keep there,
and mapped it as a drive letter on her machine. I've symlinked a few other
folders into my home directory (other family member's home directories, etc)
so that she can get to them all in one place – as far as she's concerned
it's just 'J:/bobs_stuff' even though it's really more complicated than
that.
She can browse those folders fine, but does not have write privileges. I've
got all the folders set to 775 – and all of the users are in the 'family'
group, so it should work (it works via SSH). She has write access in my
home directory – the 'root' as it shows up on her end. I have writable = on
and createmask = 777 in smb.conf, so I don't know why it's not being passed
to the linked directories.
Any suggestions on how I can get it to work?
- Justin
