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[Thorsten Brabetz]

I initially tried it that way, but I certainly have to say that (at least in 
my setup here) only smbd seems to care about smb.conf. At least my smbclient 
as well as smbmount completely ignore smb.conf. I found that I have to 
configure them "manually" (i.e. within the rc.d scripts) using the options 
line... 

Even telling smbmount the location of smb.conf in the options line did not 
make any difference... 

... and as a hint for you, Jon, be careful with the options for smbmount, as 
the syntax has changed sometimes in 2001 or so... Iain still uses the old 
syntax, I used the new one (with -o), so you have to find out which one is 
used by your distribution before copying either of our command lines... 

Best wishes and good luck


Thorsten



On Thursday 31 January 2002 15:17, Iain Furneaux wrote:
> Have you tried giving authority using the smbpasswd program and then
> inserting either
>
> public = yes
> or
> users = username
>
> in the smb.conf file ?
>
> then mount it with
>
> smbmount //server/sharename -U username -c' mount /mount/point'
>
> Thorsten Brabetz wrote:
> > Uhm... hopefully I will not confuse you more than help, because I am a
> > bloody greenhorn myself... however, I had a similar problem...
> >
> > How did you install the clients? If you used the SAMBA daemon (smbd), I
> > can't help you, as I have not played with it myself. If you however used
> > either smbmount, or smbclient, be warned that both by default install as
> > "read only"... I fell for the same trick.
> >
> > The call must be e.g.
> >
> > smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -o rw
> >
> > -o means option, and rw allows read AND write access...
> >
> > More details/options can be found in the man pages for smbclient and
> > smbmount. You should be able to look at the man pages by typing either
> >
> > man smbclient
> >
> > or
> >
> > man smbmount,
> >
> > respectively, in any terminal window.
> >
> > Be warned that if you have more than one option, all options have to be
> > seperated by commas WITHOUT space, or otherwise only the FIRST option
> > will be fulfilled... The first space is regarded as the end of the option
> > lines by either smbclient or smbmount...
> >
> > Hope that sort of helped.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Thorsten
> >
> > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 21:45, Jon Swanson wrote:
> > > I am new to Linux and Samba, and am trying to configure my first
> > > server.  I am at the point where I can see the server and the shares I
> > > have created, but I am not able to write anything to the shared folders
> > > because it says that there is a "Network write error, no space
> > > available on the server" in a blue screen on the client. This should be
> > > very simple, but I am very new. All I want to do is configure a server
> > > that has authentication of the users and share the rest of the drive
> > > space for file sharing and common server based programs. I would
> > > appreciate if someone would point me in the write direction..ie
> > > reading, help, or where to go from here. Thanks--Jon Swanson
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Thorsten Brabetz
> > Queen's University Belfast
> > Electrical & Electronic Eng.
> > Ashby Building, Stranmillis Road
> > BELFAST, BT9 5AH
> > UNITED KINGDOM
> >
> > Tel.: +44.(0)28.9027-4089
> > Fax: +44.(0)28.9066 7023
> >
> > E-mail: T.Brabetz at ee.qub.ac.uk
> > UIN: 5003405
> >
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Thorsten Brabetz
Queen's University Belfast
Electrical & Electronic Eng.
Ashby Building, Stranmillis Road
BELFAST, BT9 5AH
UNITED KINGDOM

Tel.: +44.(0)28.9027-4089
Fax: +44.(0)28.9066 7023

E-mail: T.Brabetz at ee.qub.ac.uk
UIN: 5003405

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