permissions on VFAT partitions

Rodger Haynes rodger at thompsonprint.com
Fri Dec 21 08:18:03 GMT 2001


In smb.conf
[sys]
comment=VFAT share
path=/sys
writable=yes
public=yes

"Loo, Joseph" wrote:

> Have you set the write permission for guest on the share?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Haynes [mailto:rodger at thompsonprint.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:08 AM
> To: samba
> Subject: permissions on VFAT partitions
>
> I'm running RH7.1 and Samba 2.2.2 . I would like to offer a VFAT
> partition on the server  hard drive for universal read-write access. I
> mount the partition in fstab with
>
> /dev.hda5    /sys    vfat    defaults,rw,uid=1001,gid=1001    0 0
>
> It mounts fine and shows up on the Windows 98 machine and can be opened.
> I can't write to it however.
> User and group 1001 are smbuser account, and they show up in /ls -l as
> the owner and group.
> security=share
> I'm logging in from host "rodger" - this account exists in hosts file
> chmod 777 /sys -R and chmod 777 /sys/* -R doesn't seem to get the job
> done either.
> I can set up directories under / and make them universally accessable, I
> just can't seem to do it with VFAT
> I'm new to the Linux world and would really appreciate any help you can
> give me. Thanks in advance. -Rodger
>
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