[Samba] Samba share is not writeable

[James]

Steve, thanks. Your tip makes mounting the share easier. 
I found what I believe was the problem, so I'll share it in case someone
else has the same troubles, and browses upon this thread...
I read somewhere that you can only set permissions on Win XP machines
that are formatted to use the NTFS file system. Mine was FAT 32. So I
changed my file system type to NTFS without data loss by executing:
"convert c: FS:NTFS /V"
And viola, whatever I say dmask is, it is!
Regards,
--James

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:18, James wrote:
> 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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