Writing to a Win98 share?

[Rashkae]

fmask=0777 should give you full permission to all the files. However, if
you want to create new files, you will also need the same permissions on
the directories, with dmask=0777. For the sake of avoiding accidents, if
you do not intent to create shell scripts on your share, remove the
executable permissoin on the fmask,, therefore, use fmask=0666, (you need
the executable on for directories, so leave dmask at 777)

Be aware that this will give every user of your linux box full access to
that share. But this will get you started at least, you can later
experiment with fine tuning uid, gid and individual permissions.



On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, SnuggleB wrote:

Hi all. Very simple question, hopefully with a very simple answer....

Here's my problem...

I'm mounting a Windows98(se) share (yes, with full permissions, no password)
onto my Linux box. Mounts just fine, all users can read from it perfectly.

However, NO users except for root can write to the share! How can I fix
this?

Here's my mount line for the share from /etc/fstab:

//mav/mav_z  /mnt/mav_z  smbfs  user  0  0

I've tried mounting it with "mount /mnt/mav_z" which works, and I've also
tried using "mount -t smbfs -o guest,rw,fmask=0777 //mav/mav_z /mnt/mav_z"
which also works. Same result though, can't write to the share!

Someone on IRC suggested I add "umask=000", but all that gives me is the
"Usage instructions" for mount.

Please help, I'm getting desperate here!

Mike Chaney
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