First off, thank you all. This is THE linux site. I have been configuring my Fedora Core 1 almost to perfection without having to ask a single question; it is all here! Now I seem to be having a problem that no one else is having:

I have shares on my XP box, things like audio and website folders.
I can literally mount the shares any way I want, all crinkum crankum, and I can access them with all accounts on my Fedora box. BUT!

I can't delete or rename things in the shares in nautilus or konkueror with my user account, no matter how I mount them - but if I browse to the website dirs in bluefish I can save over my php files!

If nautilus is launched in terminal as SU I can do whatever I want in the shares, so it's not on XP's end.

smbmount //Q/qe /home/aaron/qe -o username=aaron password=poop uid=500 gid=500 fmask=777 dmask=777 rw

I am quite sure that I have tried every smbmount and mount -t smbfs command under the sun. Is there anyone with XP and Fedora that has done this no problem that would like to share their commands?? What IS the deal?

OH, and feel free to talk geek to me, I have gedited half my damn config files already, fixed the firefox profile manager problem, configed my mouse side buttons, enabled my keyboard multimedia keys, and all, I might add, with the help of this community.

I assume you are using fat32? If you are, use paste this line in your "/etc/fstab" file. Replace /dev/hda4 with the correct number for your windows partition.

/dev/hda4 /windows vfat rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

Feel free to change the mount point to whatever you prefer.
Noah

No no, sorry, these are network shares. That's why I'm using smbmount.

Oh! Sorry, I didn't catch that. I can't help you there. Sorry
Noah

If only I could get the shares to act for all users the way they act for root! Poop!!

Did you try changing permissions for that user?
Noah

I sure did, this is what I get:
[root@i-200 /home/aaron]# chmod 777 qe
chmod: changing permissions of `qe' (requested: 0777, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted

Wha??

Along with my terminal illness...

If I go into nautilus as root and I click the non-disabled checkboxes for write permissions they check and then immediately uncheck!

I might be wrong but as i believe its posible to type in /etc/fstab the line to automatically mount that share , and you can put the rw flag,

have you tried with chown ¿¿

Here is me trying to own it and then letting root own it and then trying to own it again:

[root@i-200 aaron]# chown 500 qe
chown: changing ownership of 'qe': Operation not permitted
[root@i-200 aaron]# chown 0 qe
[root@i-200 aaron]# chown aaron qe
chown: changing ownership of 'qe': Operation not permitted

Seriously, this isn't funny. In the past I haven't gotten fstab to even mount things.

Oh, and if it makes a difference, when I mount things with username=Aaron and password=poop it still asks me my password before it commits. Does that usually happen in other distros?

Thank you guys so much. If you need help with ps2 intellimouse explorers or logitech ellite setups let me know!

well, maybe you can use instead of a uid=500 (I think thats a normal user, right???) use the root number and, use the rw flag and have you typed commas between the flags??

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez it was the commas!!!! I can't believe how much time I have wasted on this. You guys are going into my will.