Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:43:10 +0100 From: Stefan Haglund <stefan.haglund@crystalnorth.com> To: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Samba problems Message-ID: <4245BB4E.3050406@crystalnorth.com> In-Reply-To: <20050326135437.44b5d481@ale.varnet.bsd> References: <20050326122909.06ed9062@ale.varnet.bsd> <424586CF.4030703@crystalnorth.com> <20050326135437.44b5d481@ale.varnet.bsd>
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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@crystalnorth.com> wrote: > > >>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 >> >>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. >> >>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 >> >> >> > >Hello, > >Thank you for your reply. > >I am using the security level "SHARE" with "guest" enabled (I have only >two machines on my network). > >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". > >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). > >I tried to map the guest account to the user "ale" that I use (and I can >access '/mnt/w2k'), but nothing happened. > >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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