[Samba] Samba share is not writeable

[James]

Thanks for the speedy reply. Sorry if the word 'permissions' is
incorrect. 
I did as you suggested below, making the appropriate changes for my
network. Then I executed 
mount /home/samba
and it mounted the share without error, but it was still not writeable.
The directory changed from drwx------ (unmounted) to dr-xr-xr-x
(mounted). I added dmask=0700 th the line that I added in /etc/fstab
between "gid=500" and "credentials..." Then the mounted directory was
dr-x------.

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:45, Simeonidis, Steve wrote:
> I haven't played with permissions much but I've got the following
> line in my /etc/fstab file and it works fine.
> 
> 
> //abinidi/common        /abinidi/common         smbfs
> uid=500,gid=500,credentials=/etc/smbmount_passwd,workgroup=SGL-AUS,rw 0 0
> 
> The content of the smbmount_passwd is
> username = xxxxxxx
> password = xxxxxx
> 
> owned by root.
> 
> 
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve Simeonidis
> Network Engineer, Spherion Education
> Spherion Group Ltd
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James [mailto:jhall at jadeinternet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Samba share is not writeable
> 
> 
> I am having difficulty with Windows shares mounted with smb on my linux
> machine. The mount directory will not have write permissions for anyone,
> no matter what. The mount directory that I use is /home/samba. It has
> 0700, or drwx------ permissions when it is not connected to Samba. It is
> owned by the user jhall, and the group root. When I mount it, if I use
> dmask 0777, I get dr-xr-xr-x. If I use dmask 0700, I get dr-x------, and
> so on. The subdirectories have the proper dmask, and thus are writeable.
> 
> The shared directory on my Win XP Pro box is SharedDocs, and jhall has
> full permissions in this directory.
> 
> Below is an example of my shell commands and subsequent output:
> 
> [root at laptop jhall]# ls -l /home
> ##See that the dir samba is writable by jhall
> drwx------   37 jhall    users        4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall
> drwx------    2 jhall    users        4096 Nov 27 11:09 samba
> drwx------   21 stephie  stephie      4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie
> 
> ##This is how I mount the share 
> [root at laptop jhall]# mount -t smbfs -o
> user=jhall,uid=jhall,gid=root,dmask=0700,fmask=0777 //desktop/SharedDocs
> /home/samba
> Password: 
> 
> [root at laptop jhall]# ls -l /home
> ##Now it is mounted, and I can read and execute everything that 
> ##is on my shared windows directory, but can only write things that
> ##are in a subdirectory, because they have the proper dmask of 0700
> ##I am logged in as jhall when I try to write to the directory.
> drwx------   37 jhall    users        4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall
> dr-x------    1 jhall    root         4096 Nov 24 11:54 samba
> drwx------   21 stephie  stephie      4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie
> 
> [root at laptop jhall]# smbumount /home/samba
> ##I unmount the directory
> 
> [root at laptop jhall]# ls -l /home
> ##And again have write permission
> drwx------   37 jhall    users        4096 Nov 27 19:42 jhall
> drwx------    2 jhall    users        4096 Nov 27 11:09 samba
> drwx------   21 stephie  stephie      4096 Nov 27 14:58 stephie
> 
> I hope that this is enough information. Any help is appreciated!
> 
> 
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