From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 19:43:14 2005 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 63D0816A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:43:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C5E43D5C for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:43:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stefan.haglund@crystalnorth.com) Received: by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6C1F838031; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:43:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA6737E9E; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:43:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.150] (h194n4fls310o253.telia.com [81.229.63.194]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBB837E43; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:43:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4245BB4E.3050406@crystalnorth.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:43:10 +0100 From: Stefan Haglund User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alejandro Pulver References: <20050326122909.06ed9062@ale.varnet.bsd> <424586CF.4030703@crystalnorth.com> <20050326135437.44b5d481@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20050326135437.44b5d481@ale.varnet.bsd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Samba problems 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: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:43:14 -0000 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 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 > > >