Problems with Samba shared files

[stan]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:57:39PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> stan wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >The tail -f works fine, but the application on the Windows side that should
> >be appending data to this file (think syslog like functionality) pops up an
> >error message about not being able to write to the file.
> >
> >I've mounted the share as read only,
> 
> Um, why are you expecting the Windows application to be able to append to a 
> file on a read-only Samba share?
> 
The Samba filesystem is ON the windows box. it's whatever FS os on that
machine. I'm just mounting it via Samab. So, the read only semantics apply
to the FreeBSD side only.


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