[vox] Mounting a Shared Win2k Drive for Students--no write access?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Steve Hargadon wrote:
> I've mounted a shared Win2k directory in a K12LTSP 4.2 setup at a
> school where the students have traditionally all saved their work on
> their old Windows machines.
> 
> No matter what I do, I can't seem to get write access for the student
> group id to be able to save documents.  Root can save, although it is
> asked for a password confirmation, but nothing I have done has changed
> the write permissions for the group.
> 
> Here is the mount command I have used:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=student,password=abc123 //sharename/Students /S-Drive
> 
> I've tried unmask = 000, doesn't seem to make a difference.

Maybe you want "umask=000"

> I've gried gid=students, also nothing
> 
> Any suggestions?
>