[Wolves] Samba Question

Wayne Morris wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jul 18 16:40:01 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:36, bambam@pineapple.shacknet.nu wrote:
> Ok, I'm having trouble understanding your exact problem, but
> just for what it's worth - have you considered it may be a
> unix file perms problem? Just a thought.
> 
> bambam

I got it sorted in the end, it was partly that only root can mount a
share, so the ownership of the share is root, I needed to append
uid=wayne, gid=wayne to the command below to make them useable by me.





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> On 16 Jul 2003, Wayne Morris wrote:
> 
> > Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong!
> >
> > My Samba server is set up with various shares, which seem to work
> > correctly from my XP box - depending on who you log into XP with, you
> > can rw the appropriate home share on the Samba server etc.
> >
> > >From my Linux box, I can use smblient and access the shares using the
> > appropriate user/pass.
> >
> > But I can only mount shares as root, and as root I have full access.
> > But even using (as root):
> >
> > mount -t smbfs //webserve/share /home/wayne/share -o username=<user> -o
> > rw with correct user/pass
> >
> > the share is mounted and readable, I just can write to it as user.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
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