[wplug] smb file editing

[Chris Romano]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:07:08 -0500, Vanco, Don <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >-----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?
> 

About 85% of the time trying to mount the share caused the system to lock up.

Chris