I am having an issue where computers on my local network are able to see and read a FAT32 partition (Win D:), but are not able to write to the shared folders.

My setup:

Duel boot WinXP Home/SuSE 10
Four partitions. C Drive (NTFS) D Drive (FAT32) Swap and Root.
4 Computers wirelessly connected, simple file sharing enabled.

I have Samba set up to use the D Drive as a shared network folder. Other Windows XP computers can see the shared folders, but can not write to them. I can write to the folders via Linux on the same machine as the shared drives, but on the same computer if I access the shares via SAMBA, the linux box can not write to it either. In other words, the linux box can write to the other XP network computers, but the XP computers can not write to the linux box.

Any suggestions?

Did you mount the network drive in your SuSE?

If you don't, you will be able to read, fully, but won't have access to streaming or write(the way I understand it).

If you do, by default I think Samba sharing is like CD/DVD, you need to give yourself group permissions, because root is the only one who can access it normally.

I am not positive about those, but that is the feeling I get from around the forums, and I had to mount my samba shares on my windows box in my SuSE to get streaming.

As I am new to Samba, could you elaborate a little more? I believe I know what you are getting at, but I do not fully understand what you are trying to tell me.

I have to mount a network share on the server or the client?

The server is Linux accessing a Fat32 Windows partition.

The server can write to all windows clients.

The windows clients can not write to the Samba Fat32 Windows partition.

By server I mean the computer containing the files physically.
By client I mean the computer accessing the physical files on another computer.

I do not have DNS or any other type of server network configured. Just peer to peer LAN simple file sharing.

Again sorry, but I need more specific information before I try to reconfigure my computer.

I think your elaboration changed my tune. I misunderstood exactly what it was that you are trying to do, and went and got your hopes up, for nada. Though, upon thinking about it... it may be closer to the truth than I knowingly intended. In the samba server sharing section, you may need to change the mounting and/or sharing to allow for others to access it.

I could be horribly off on that though, and may have no idea what I am talking about, especially 1am my time when I should have gone to sleep long ago.

I have the exact samething. My Windows box can not write to linux box. I have tried everything with Samba but nothing works. Can someone please help?

Thanks

Hello!

What are the entries in /etc/fstab that belong to mounting the fat32 partitions?

Greetings

/dev/hda7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

As a side note. Both my cdrom drives are DVD writers. It is strange that I need to write with one and play a movie with another. Why is this? I get permission errors.

I recently took Windows off of my machine and am running SuSE 10 on ReiserFS. I moved the network shared folders to the /home/shared folder, but I can not write to the shares from a winxp computer. I can write to the winxp computer from linux though. The shared folder has permissions that let the users group view and write changes.

Just an update.