From: "Justin Willmert" <justin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Generally I have found it's awkward to impossible to write to a
windows machine unless the account and smbpasswd entry match one
on the windows machine. Mounting usually works best if I use the
form that includes the username and password to use when mounting
the share.
{^_^}
I have had the same experience... could not write to the directory
unless the logon sequence was a user on the MS machine as well as the
appropriate password.
Greg
Let me guess, the MS machine was Windows XP Pro with simple file sharing
turned off? You need to make sure the "Everybody" group has nearly full
permissions when going to the security tab. Or (might not work; kind of
guessing here) you can turn on simple file sharing, unshare the
directory, reshare it (and watch permissions get applied to all the
files), and then it might work. Then you should be able to mount the
share with any username (except a windows-known user with incorrect
password) and password and it should work.
GACK! CHOKE! ARGH! Sinple file sharing is enough. But do NOT create
an anybody group with a lot of permissions. Windows is open enough to
cracking as it is. There is no sense opening it up even farther even
if you hate the damn thing. Any hacked Windows machine is a pain in
the sit down part of the anatomy for virtually every ISP and email
manager in the world. Please don't create a risk of adding to that
problem. {O.O}
I know, it's scary...Giving Windows directions on a FC list, but with
the rest of the family using Windows machines (and my main laptop. My FC
computers don't have screens or keyboards), interoperability between my
FC (and my Windows laptop) and everyone else's computers has become my job.
Of course, Windows machines have purposes in life - running software
and hardware features that cannot or will not appear on Linux due
to conflicts and doubts with GPL. (Truth or not this is not worth
a flame. It is pure fact that there is software some people need to
run that will not appear on Linux any time before the Sun freezes over
just like there are things on Linux that will probably never get fed
to Windows before the Sun turns into a red giant star. When one must
do these things one uses the appropriate OS. <shrug>That's no big
deal if you accept it as an unfortunate necessity of life. It's like
weather. So it's not worth another flame war, guys.)
Hope this helps...maybe...did we even *want* help with Windows???
Yeah, to a limited extent if it helps prevent problems for Linux
system administrators or email managers at some point in their lives.
{^_^}
