Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba -> NTFS

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

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