From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 17:11:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BE837B408 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F7643FAF for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553D64876A; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:11:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260D72AA3C; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:11:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19cDPj-0007eb-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:11:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:11:27 -0400 From: stan To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20030715001127.GB29352@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Swiger , Free BSD Questions list References: <20030714231921.GB27924@teddy.fas.com> <3F134373.2060808@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F134373.2060808@mac.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.21 X-Uptime: 20:08:21 up 28 days, 7:10, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Problems with Samba shared files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:11:29 -0000 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. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin