Problems with Samba shared files

[Chuck Swiger]

stan wrote:
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> 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?

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-Chuck