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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Samba shared files
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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?

-- 
-Chuck