Alright I am mounting a windows XP hardrive over a network to my linux server so that it can be backed up along with our other linux server. Unfortunatly I do not have full rights to said computer when trying to back it up. This is the command I use to mount it, some information has been removed. I do use the proper username and password for the computer.


mount -t smbfs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP //computername/C /home/computername


The mount suceeds and while investigating why I wasnt getting all the files I went to certain directories such as the my documents directory at C/Documents and Settings/username and when I try to view the file I get this

ls: reading directory .: Permission denied

Any help would be appriated.

Sam

Do you have permissions to read the directory?

well I would assume so, the username and password i'm using is the appropriate name for the owner of the directory, in this case the directory home is Mark, and the username being entered is Mark with his appropriate password. I'm just unsure if any kind of windows option needs to be set on the windows machine to give me rights to it. Or is it generally that if you enter the username and password correctly you get full permissions and perhaps I have them incorrectly entered.


Sam

Well, on Windows you have to share the directory to be able to access it via SAMBA so what happens is that there are two layers of security on Windows. There is a share level security box and the NTFS security level. You must have proper permissions at both levels because the effective permission when you combine share level security with NTFS security is the MOST RESTRICTIVE of the two. In plain English, this means that the user may have proper NTFS permissions on the home directory and can access it when on the local machine BUT they do not have access according to the share permissions which means no remote access is allowed.

What about the default "hidden" administrative share, have you read anything on that? I know Windows 2003 share's the entire C:\ drive by default, I'm not sure about other version's though. I know I didn't have any permission problems while "browsing" the administrative share on my mate's machine , ya gotta love Windows.

Just found this, haven't read real deep into it but it might help.

http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/F...acstaff2k.html

Accessing the Administrative share requires Admin access to the system. He has stated that he doesn't Admin access on the machine.

Well alittle update on my problem, I think we figured it all out, but we'd like to find another way if possible.


Currently he's sharing the C drive, which gives access to everything but the program files, windows and docuements and settings area's of his computer, if he also shares his my documents folder we get the information we need but he opens it to everyone on the network. So we are looking for a way to get open access to those files without opening them to other people on the network. There is a way to do it on XP professional, but not XP home edition. It involves simple file sharing and access parameters. So basically we're looking for a way to set access rites to said files without having to get professional. But it doesnt look possible.


Sam