Hiya, I haven't got that much of an idea what I'm doing here, so apologies in advance if I'm doing something dumber than usual.

I build a SuSE linux box and am trying to share it on a windows network. I got samba running, and can see my shares on the other machines, but when I tried to access them it said invalid user/password. Then I realised I must have to have the permissions set more loose on the SuSE pc, so I logged on as root, and went to the directories I am trying to share (whole drive mounts) and ran chmod 777 directory name. This didn't error, but didn't change the permissions.

I tried verbose mode:
ssstorage:/ # chmod -v 777 storage_fixd
mode of `storage_fixd' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
ssstorage:/ # ls -l | grep storage_fixd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 9 09:18 storage_fixd

Chmod works normally elsewhere, but not on this drive mount / directory. Does anyone know what I have missed? Thanks for any assistance,

Dave =

I have had that problem in times past. What I think I did to solve it is to unmount the drive, run chmod against the directory, and remount the drive.

The permissions must be set when you mount any given partition w/samba I believe. By default it sets it as read only. I have not really devled very deep in samba only to share files as I don't want others to write to any non local partition. (I use scp for that)

Sorry I can't be of more help. I know that the man page for smbmount has info on setting mountpoint perms however. Try that.

Thanks - the drive mount thing is interesting, and is onto the right track here. I can change the permissions on the directory when no drive mounted there - all AOK - set them to be rwxrwxrwx, but as soon as the drive is mounted then it sets the permissions automatically to be rwxr-wr-w and won't let them be altered.

Guessing that it must be something to do with the drive mounting process?

Are you mounting the drive in /etc/fstab? If so check how /etc/fstab is set up.