My brand new Fedora 3 box is mounting a 30GB FAT32 secondary drive at startup and sharing out the root folder of this mounted drive (just data) via SAMBA. When I browse out to the network with my XP Pro box I can see all files from that 30GB drive but I don't have access to create / modify any of the files.

I'm not using a domain controller, just a peer-to-peer and I want every user on my network (all 2 of them) to have read/write permissions to the mounted drive.

Here is my fstab file:
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/test / auto,rw,sync 0 0

Here is my smb.conf entry for this share...

[test]
path=/mnt/test
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

Any advice or pointers would be great !!

Thanks everyone !!

You may want to verify that root can write to this drive from the console. As root, CD to the mount point of your FAT32 partition and try 'touch file'. It should create a file called 'file'. If you can't modify the FS as root, samba definitely won't work.

Also, which samba user is set up to be guest? 'nobody' or 'guest' ??

If you have a user that maps to guest, then you can add this to the share:

admin users = guest

That will give the guest user admin access (root equivalence).

I think this should be the line of the fstab file instead:
Try that.

calcon

Thanks calcon and tisource !!

I'll try both of your answers and reply with the results.

tisource -- You said .....
>>>Also, which samba user is set up to be guest? 'nobody' or 'guest' ??
>>>If you have a user that maps to guest, then you can add this to the share:

I do I know this? Change this ? What 'should' it be?

I only have 1 user which is 'root'. Nobody else. Bad?

My goal is to make the FAT32 drive completely open to all users no matter what.

Thanks again.

I didn't say that.

I don't really know about samba, but I think that that may solve your problem.

Ok, I'll be waiting for your results

calcon

I think I'm in over my head. Here is my fstab file....bolded is my FAT32 entry. When I boot or do mount -a from the command prompt I get this message .... What does it mean?

[root@localhost etc]# mount -a
mount: fs type users not supported by kernel

=======================================================================

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/test sync,rw,users 0 0

If your system doesn't already have samba user, create it:
123 is just an example, you can use any unused uid number.

Tell samba to use the new account by adding this to the [global] section of the configuration file:
guest account = samba

The fstab line should be:
Mount the partition and restart samba. It should work now.

Harmaa Kettu --- Thanks. I did exacly what you said and it works now. I appreciate the responses.
Thanks again and have a great weekend !

I'm glad that you got it working.
I assume that you noticed that you dropped the filetype when you changed the fstab line.

/dev/hdd1 /mnt/test sync,rw,users 0 0

As a somewhat separate issue, you can assign ownership and group ownership to VFAT mounts by including 'uid=' and 'gid=' options in the fstab line. For example 'uid=joshnya' would make the user 'joshnya' the owner. It is done this way because the FAT32 filesystem doesn't store the same permissions as a native Unix file-system. Also, you need to have the mount working before offering it up as a share.

You mentioned earlier that only have a root user. That is not a good idea. The root user should only be used for maintainance and configuration. If you make a mistake, you could effect areas that a normal user couldn't. You might also want to use the 'visudo' to edit the /etc/sudoers file to allow you to execute common root commands such as '/sbin/shutdown -r now'.
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