[oclug] Samba and NT share problem ???

[Philippe Tanguay]

What are the permissions on /home/ftp/ftpdir ?   You need to make that
writable by whatever user needs it.  The remount your share and try it again.

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Dave Lewis wrote:

> I have a bit of a problem.. and I think I know where it is.. but I donno 
> how to fix it ?
> 
> 
> Here's the situation, I have a ftp server.. It's been on my NT server for 
> years however I like the functionality of glftpd so I setup
> glftpd on my linux box (also my gateway) and decided to use smb and share 
> the files to a dir on the linux server, because
> of the raid setup on my nt server I don't really want to have to move it..
> 
> 
> I have glftpd  up and I can download but I can't seem to write to the dirs 
> and I believe it is becuase the dirs are mapped
> with permisions
> 
> 
> drwxrwxr-x  root root
> 
> 
> and it's preventing me .. am I even close ???
> 
> 
> my mount command is in my rc.local file and looks like this
> 
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=Linuxbox,password=xxxx //snafu-nt/ftpdir 
> /home/ftp/ftpdir
> 
> 
> am I even close ??? can anyone point me in the right direction of how to 
> get that last w in the mask ? a chmod doesn't work
> the nt server has given full control on the share to the user that is using 
> it.. and I can create and delete as root but not as
> any other user or through ftp ??????
> 
> 
> am I totally nuts ???
> 
> 
> Any comments / help / assistance would be appreciated..
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> Dave Lewis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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