On Friday 13 April 2007 13:10, Wackojacko wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb > > Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting > > through Samba. the permissions on the share in the Win Box, an NTFS > > partition, is set to allow full control to my user login. I have mounted > > the network share to a local directory on the Deb system > > /home/randy/wwwroot. The only problem is I can't write to the directory. > > I have read about the lack of write support to an NTFS partition so am I > > to understand that this applies when using Samba as well or is there a > > way I can get around this problem? > > > > Thanks, > > Randy > > How are you mounting the samba share on the debian box? AFAIK you need > to specify the mount options to allow write access for your user, the > default is read only. This is not a limitation of NTFS write as the > host win box does the writing to the disk. > > HTH > > Wackojacko
Here's my mount command executed from /home/randy; smbmount //myserver/wwwroot wwwroot -o usernane=myusername,password=mypassword,rw Just to mention again 'myusername' was permission set to full control on the wwwroot directory on the win box. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
