Problems gaining write access to Windows Shares

[Yan Seiner]

Urban Widmark wrote:
> 
> 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

I seem to remember reading somewhere that windows needs RW permissions
to every parent directory, not just the one you are in.  I had this bite
me several times.  Check that users have rwx perms to all dirs in the
tree.  (You need X perms on the dirs as well.)

--Yan

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