[olug] Samba And XP Pro

Steven Busby steve at busby.com
Fri Feb 25 20:34:08 UTC 2005


Joe,

Ensure your /etc/fstab or your manual mount command are mounting these drives with "joe" as the owner.

As the only day-to-day Linux user in my group, I've had to ensure my /etc/fstab loads all the network shares, //server/c$, etc., with my userid/groupid as the owner and 
group.

BuzB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Catanzaro" <joecatanzaro at cox.net>
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Samba And XP Pro
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:33:35 -0600

> 
> I've got an old Red Hat 6.1 box running Samba 2.x and I've moved a bunch of 
> files and folders over to my XP Pro box with Win Explorer. Now when I try to 
> open the files, I'm getting lots of stupid errors (access denied, etc). Bottom 
> line is that I don't have the right permissions. I'm using the joe user and 
> I'm in the administrator group. So, my question is, where on God's green Earth 
> did Microsoft hide the fricken file permission manager thingy?
> 
> A quick fix is for me to share the folder that these files are in and then I'm 
> able to work with them, but obviously I don't want shared folders all over the 
> place. Also, I believe the root cause of this problem was that a lot of these 
> files were in a secondary group on my linux box.  chown joe:joe -R *    ended 
> up solving the problem going forward.  All I want to do is log into DOS and 
> type:  chmod 777 -R *    and    chown joe:administrator -R *     is that 
> asking too much?   Darn XP box..............
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Catanzaro
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