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Re: smbmount w2k3 no write access



On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:41:49AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:19:52PM -0400, tqcc-list-keeper@djrossetti.com wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get write access to the mount
> > bellow as a regulare user.  Its a windows 2003 server with signing off.
> > Everything seems to works well as root.
> > smbmount //downtown/sysback /mnt/smb/downtown/ -o
> > username=username/servername%'!password' gid=100 uid=1000

> this is not an answer but is important to know:
> the regular ntfs support in debian is not 100% reliable with write capability.
> everyone I know only uses it with read-only access...

That doesn't apply to using smbmount, a *network* client.  In this case
you're not actually writing to the NTFS partition at all, just telling the
Windows box to do so itself.  This is no moire likely to corrupt a file
system than the Win2003 box is networking to any other kind of computer.
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