[SWLUG] Network Permissions

[Phillip Evans]

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:54:03 +0000
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Subject: Re: [SWLUG] Network permissions
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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?



dmesg output as hd is mounted, looks fairly standard with no error
messages & write protect is off


[ 1030.168022] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 1030.448385] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 1030.456719] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 1030.456870] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 1030.456982] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1030.456984] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 1031.457926] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       5000AAV External
1.65 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 1031.484638] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 1031.487157] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500
GB/465 GiB)
[ 1031.490795] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1031.490801] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
[ 1031.492779] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 1031.492781] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1031.497777] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 1031.497781] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1031.500141]  sdb: sdb1
[ 1031.504789] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 1031.504794] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1031.504798] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

The output from mount as follows :

/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Book type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

This also looks ok, should I try unmounting & then remounting manually
with other options ?