permissions on VFAT partitions

[Rodger Haynes]

My gut feeling is that the Samba share is happy enough, but Linux file
permissions are the culprit.

"Loo, Joseph" wrote:

> This what I used and it seems to work withou any problem. However, I found
> it takes a few minutes to propogate out.
>
> Make sure you start and restart the smb process before each configuration
> change unless you use swat.
>
> [temp]
>         comment = Temporary storage only
>         path = /home/nobody/write-anybody/temp
>         read only = No
>         guest ok = Yes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Haynes [mailto:rodger at thompsonprint.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 9:24 AM
> To: Loo, Joseph; samba
> Subject: Re: permissions on VFAT partitions
>
> 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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