[Herefordshire] Samba Permissions

[Julian Robbins]

I've got it at work. I'll send it over when I get in.

Julian

Gary Watts wrote:
> Hi Andrew
> 
> I cant change the directory permissions - whenever I put a tick in the "write" checkbox, it gets removed again.
> 
> All the user names and passwords are identical in both Windows and Linux.
> 
> Can you remind me about the encryption registry hack in XP?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew at hodgsonfamily.org]
> Sent: 08 November 2004 07:53
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Samba Permissions
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:54:01 -0000, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all
>>
>>Does anyone know how to make samba shares writeable by Windows XP clients?
>>
>>I've set the shares to read/write till I'm blue in the face by editing smb.conf, SWAT, WebMin, but I simply cannot write to anything via Windows.  The shares are all on vfat partitions.
> 
> 
> What about the permissions on the directories themselves?  Also ensure
> that password encryption is disabled in W2k/XP, (there is a registry
> hack I can give you), and also ensure that the user cridentials that
> Windows is giving the server are correct (i.e, corispond to users with
> read/write permissions).
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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