Problems gaining write access to Windows Shares

Dennis K Grow dkgrow at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 11 22:18:03 GMT 2002


"Marc R. Hoffman" wrote:

> I'm having a problem gaining write access to Windows shares. The share is
> on a Windows 2000 Workstation computer. I type the following in a shell:
>
> smbmount //win2kpro/smbshare /home/mhoffman/samba username=mhoffman
>
> The username typed here has been given complete read/write access
> privileges/permissions on the Win2K box. In the end, all I can do is
> browse the Win2K shares, but I can't write to them. I've tried variations
> on the smbmount command:
>
> smbmount //win2kpro/smb_share /home/mhoffman/samba -o username=mhoffman
> smbmount //win2kpro/smb_share /home/mhoffman/samba -o username=mhoffman,rw
> smbmount //win2kpro/smb_share /home/mhoffman/samba -o
> username=mhoffman,workgroup=workgroup
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why I can't get write access to these
> Windows shares?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Marc
>
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add:
fmask=0775 or 0777 if you want everyone to rw.



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