Re: Samba Problem - Almost there

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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:47 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > then the only thing that I can think of is that a Windows FAT partition mounts as a particular user and if you are trying to share it with 'samba' - the issue is that there might be a conflict between the user trying to use it and and the 'local' user who has the mount.
> > 
> > bear in mind that POSIX attributes are not available on a FAT volume mount and I have to wonder if something isn't being logged somewhere, either in /var/log/messages or /var/log/samba/smbd.log or /var/log/samba/log.smbd that provides a clue.
> > 
> > I can't say that I've ever tried to share a VFAT or NTFS volume via samba before and I don't know the consequences of that.
> >
> Actually, it got a little curiouser (to borrow from Lewis Carrol). To
> get a required task to run, I created a symlink from the ext3 partition
> that I'm having no problem connecting to to the windows partition. Going
> through that symlink, I have no problem accessing the files in the vfat
> partition. I believe this pretty much rules out a permissions problem in
> the Linux setup. There could be a permissions issue in the *SAMBA*
> setup, but Linux doesn't have any problem with that remote user using
> the files in vfat.
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your description is a bit too vague to comment

you could always try a bind mount...i.e.

mkdir /home/windows
chmod 777 /home/windows
mount --bind /windows /home/windows

Craig

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