I'm on a network with a Win2K computer sharing a passworded folder. I've setup the computer to be a mount point in the mandrake (10.1) config center, and I can go to /mnt/the2kcomp and view the files there fine. But for some reason it won't let me write to them. I know the Win2K box is setup correctly because other windows computers can write to the share, just mandrake can't.

I turned off the firewall during install so that should be preventing me from writing. In advanced options in the config center I've entered my username and password and the read only box is not checked.

Here's the line from /etc/fstab:

I've never had to mess with this before because SuSe set it up automatically. All the google help is for people running samba servers on mandrake. I did ls -l in /etc and noticed this:

Being a linux newbie I tried chmod +777 students but that didn't work.

Ideas? :P

hi there

see ur permissions here

//dragon/students /mnt/students smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.dragon.k04jg02 0 0

set them to 0 0 0

also try mounting by

smbmount '//<ipadressof win machine>/share name' <path of mounting>

the share name is case sensitive
mount ur share in a differnet dir. and see if u can edit the files then

regards

Adding the extra 0 to the end in /etc/fstab didn't work, but I think I might have done something wrong. It highlighted the two previous zeroes as red, but the one I typed in showed up grey (I'm using vi). That mean anything?

smbmount by hand works, and writing as root works, but being able to do this stuff as a normal user like I could in SuSe would be nice :/

hi there

may be u need to check out the permisions or the directories where u r mounting this share,for the permisions for the normal user
or try it mountiug in the a dir. in the home directory of the user

regards

try this command

smbmount //win2knetbiosname/share /mnt/the2kcomp -o fmask=777,dmask=777

see if that lets you write to it