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I am trying to connect to a windows share from my linux box. I was able to mount the windows share as root, but I could not change the permissions to allow another user to write to the share. how to change permissions to allow other users to write to the windows share?

Your question is a bit confusing. Are you trying to connect to a windoze machine from linux, or are you trying to connect to linux from a windoze machine.

Lee

I am on my linux box -- I hava share drive set up on the windows box. I am able to access the windows box from my linux box by using the command mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx //windows/share /linux/directory

This command seems to only work as root. I cannot write to the windows share from linux as anyone except root and I cannot change permissions with chmod. Is there a way to change the permissions??

Try changing the permissions on the mount space /linux/directoy so that your users can write to it, before you mount the windows share.

I tried that but I still cannot write to any directories that exist under the share mount point.

Thank you for the help -- I put the option uid=<unix user> in the mount command and that worked.