permissions on VFAT partitions

Rodger Haynes rodger at thompsonprint.com
Fri Dec 21 09:28:02 GMT 2001


I tried this to no avail. My understanding is that public=yes and guest ok=yes
are synonymous commands

"Loo, Joseph" wrote:

> Try adding guest ok = yes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Haynes [mailto:rodger at thompsonprint.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:15 AM
> To: Loo, Joseph; samba
> Subject: Re: permissions on VFAT partitions
>
> 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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