samba

Forum: Networking
Topic: samba
started by: wade85

Posted by wade85 on June 19 2006,07:41

Googling has been done as well as using sample smb.conf from users on the forums,

is your winxp firewall on? NO file wall is off on all machines, behind a smoothwall box.
is your 'netshare' repository writable (permissions?)? it is for Users, no matter how many times i try and change it so its writable for all,. no avail the permissions keep reverting
have you set a samba user with passwd? no password set, as you can see from the smb.conf file, its meant to be a very open unsecure share.

i have tried chmod from shell to change the permissions it said it was done, any thoughts?
ws

Posted by ZoOp on June 19 2006,08:11

Try this:

In DSL:
define a passwd for user dsl (with the command passwd dsl in a shell as root);

In smb.conf:
define a user named "dsl" and give this user the password you have defined for him in DSL; make all needed changes in your smb.conf in order for the user dsl to have a rw access to your repository (which is rw for dsl);

good luck!
yours
z

Posted by dtf on June 19 2006,13:41

I am wondering if the file system you are trying to share is a read only file system. What is directory you want to share?

Posted by JustoTech on June 22 2006,01:05

Quote (dtf @ June 19 2006,08:41)

I am wondering if the file system you are trying to share is a read only file system. What is directory you want to share?

Here's what it sounds like to me:

Your XP machine is using NTFS. Using Samba you can view, execute, and copy files from NTFS. You CAN'T modify an NTFS partition. To the best of my knowledge there isn't a single program for the 2.4 kernel that can modify NTFS.

I remember hearing something about a patch for Knoppix STD that will allow you to do it but it runs kernel 2.6.

On my DSL system the only thing I use Samba for is to stream files from my Windows box like, movies, music, etc.

Posted by linux4all on April 22 2007,02:30

Quote (JustoTech @ June 21 2006,21:05)

Quote (dtf @ June 19 2006,08:41)

I am wondering if the file system you are trying to share is a read only file system. What is directory you want to share?

A Linux machine connected to a Windows XP machine over a local area network can read and write to any file on the Windows XP machine which is shared on the network as writable. It doesn't matter which Windows File System is in use. The Windows operating system takes care of the reading and writing to the file system. Samba is only the vehicle by which the information is transferred between the computers.