[SWLUG] Network permissions

[Matt Willsher]

On 22 November 2011 00:12, Phillip Evans
<phillip at phillipevans.mail1.co.uk>wrote:

> I have a Western Digital external USB hd formatted as NTFS plugged into
> my desktop. On my previous version of Kubuntu, 10.04, I was able to
> share this across my domestic network using Samba with full r/w access
> no problem.
>
> Since upgrading to 11.10 the share is listed on other networked machines
> but cannot be accessed. On checking permissions I find that only Owner
> has full r/w access, Group & World are access denied. I have tried to
> change Group & World access to full r/w but it will not accept any
> change even if I do it as root.
>
> What has changed ? Any ideas on how to overcome this ??


What does the output of the mount command show while the HD is connected
and readable?
What's in the logs and dmesg output when you initially connect the drive?
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