Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba -> NTFS
On Friday 13 April 2007 13:35, Wackojacko wrote:
> 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
That worked! I just changed the command above by removing the 'rw' and
replacing it with "fmask=0777,dmask=0777" and it worked. Thanks so much for
the help!
Randy
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