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Replacing smbfs with cifs fails to mount the share.
I've never been able to find a good reference or HOWTO for accessing a Windows domain share from a Linux client, so I expect I've left some steps out. All I've done is add a line to /etc/fstab, and then try the commands we've discussed here. I have done nothing to smb.conf or the share on the server. I can access the share with rw access from a Windows XP computer using the same credentials.
Last edited by Charlie Spencer; 07-26-2006 at 10:00 AM.
Distribution: SUSE 9.0 Pro, SUSE OSS 10.0, KDE 3.4.2
Posts: 156
Rep:
If I understand right:
You can rw from windows to linux but not the other way?
If this is correct the smb.conf should be OK.
is your shared folder in windows set to writable?
Quoting from a response to this question as posted at TechRepublic
"ahh, I bet I know.
Red Hat 9 is the linux version
and I'll bet that the file system on the windows system is NTFS.
NTFS, up until fedora 4 release, was read only for non root because the support for it wasn't solid enough to risk the data corruption."
I logged on the RH9 system as root instead of my user account and I was able to access the Windows share with full access privs. In theory this problem should go away when I install Fedora Core 5 next week.
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