Problems gaining write access to Windows Shares

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Sun Jan 13 03:16:03 GMT 2002


On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Marc R. Hoffman wrote:

> Hi Dennis...
> 
> Thanks for the quick note, but so far, no good. I still can't write data 
> to the Windows share. I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.1, if that helps at all. 
> Any other ideas?

If fmask=0777 doesn't allow you to write (and smbfs shows the permissions
as rwxrwxrwx) then check the permissions on the server (again). Perhaps
you do not access it as the user you think you are.

/Urban





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