[wplug] smb file editing

[Chris Romano]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:58:48 -0500, Michael P. O'Connor
<mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:
> I have a question, I have files on my winblows box that I need to edit
> under linux, since editing them under winblows would be very very
> painfull. I am using the following mount command as root
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=mpop,password=xxxxxx,uid=mpop,gid=mpop,rw
> //192.168.110.4/casos /home/mpop/WindowsBox
> 
> I have set the casos file to be shared and checked the box that says
> "Allow network users to change my files" and made sure that all the
> files and subdirs are rw on the windows box.  Every time I mount the
> share accross the network winblows chages the promitions on all the
> files to read only so I can not edit them. and every time I change them
> back winblows will change them to read only on me, how do I stop
> winblows from fscking with me so I can edit the files.

What distro are you using?  I found that Fedora 2 has problems with
mounting window shares like that, but SUSE 9.1 works fine.  I am not
sure about other distros though.

Chris