[wplug] smb file editing

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Fri Feb 4 08:07:08 EST 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Chris Romano
>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:14 PM
>To: General user list
>Subject: Re: [wplug] smb file editing
>
>
>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.

Not to wimp out on CLI - but Webmin has come a long way, baby.  It does
a nice job with SAMBA these days (as well as lots of other stuff).  What
kind of "issues" under FC2?



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