Windows Share
 

Is it possible to set up a Windows share, and make it writable?

I currently use the following:

mount -t smbfs //WINDOWS_MACHINE/SHARE_NAME /home/user/some_dir

Unfortunately, no matter what the permissions of the windows share are, I can not write to the folder.

Thanks in advance...

you should be fine to just set a umask option there....

mount -t smbfs //WINDOWS_MACHINE/SHARE_NAME /home/user/some_dir -o umask=002

No luck there, tried the -o dmask option also, but no luck writing to the share.

What version of windoze are you using??
I'm on a Linux-XP network and I can perfectly write to the XP shares just by setting permissions to 777 to the mount point

I'm using Win2K and have set the file permissions for the share to allow access to all authenticated users, as I don't want to open up things too much...

I have set the permissions of the mount point to 777 but this did not help.

I may have to try changing the permissions of the windows share itself, though I thought my current settings would have been fine.

Have you tried?:

mount -t smbfs -o username=win2kuser,password=yourpass //WINDOWS_MACHINE/SHARE_NAME /home/user/some_dir

You might also want to add rw to the command.

mount -t smbfs -o rw,username=<win2kuser>,password=<yourpassword> //WINDOWS_MACHINE/SHARE_NAME /home/user/some_dir

Mike

is the share given write perms

when u share a folder u can give perms , the default is read
change it in windows