Samba problems

[Stefan Haglund]

Could you output the /etc/fstab? As far as I know, the major difference 
is that writing to NTFS isn't fully supported in Linux (last I checked). 
Maybe there is something Samba tries to do, that conflicts with that. 
Other than that I don't know, sorry. :-)

Regards,
Stefan Haglund

>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:59:11 +0100
>Stefan Haglund <stefan.haglund at crystalnorth.com> wrote:
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>>First of all, make sure those mounts are accessible for normal users,
>>if you haven't. It's under the options for the mount in /etc/fstab, I 
>>think. You can always do a 'man fstab' if unsure.
>>
>>Does the username/password (check out 'smbpasswd') you are using to 
>>connect to samba exist in the samba user database? If not, samba won't
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>>know who you are, and will use the default guest user to access files 
>>(usually very restricted). That might be why you can access the mounts
>>when you log in to the server, but not through server.
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>>If you go with the first, ALL users will have access. If you want to 
>>restrict it to, say,  a certain group, you have to go with the second 
>>solution I think (and add users in the samba user database).
>>
>>Hope I got the issue correctly, else I dunno :-).
>>
>>Regards,
>>Stefan Haglund
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>Hello,
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>Thank you for your reply.
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>I am using the security level "SHARE" with "guest" enabled (I have only
>two machines on my network).
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>The mounts are accessible by normal users (like "ale"), the permissions
>in '/mnt/w2k/' are 'rwxr-xr-x', the owner is "root" and group "wheel".
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>I would like to add that I also have another share that is a FAT32
>partition (WinXP) and I can browse it from the other machine (like
>everything else).
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>I tried to map the guest account to the user "ale" that I use (and I can
>access '/mnt/w2k'), but nothing happened.
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>This only happens in a NTFS mount point. The files and directories show
>as truncated, and I can not "see" (determine size, copy, determine
>if it is a file or directory, etc.) them until I do an operation over
>them with any normal user in the server, then I can see the files/dirs
>affected by the operation I did (ls, etc.). Before I only see the
>entries (names) without attributes (permissions, directory flag, etc.).
>
>Thanks and Best Regards,
>Ale
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