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

[Ken Bloom]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:59:02AM -0800, Steve Hargadon wrote:
> Still crazy over this one.
> 
> Here is my command:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o
> rw,username=student,password=abc123,uid=210,gid=200,umask=002
> //wind2ksrv/Students /S-Drive/
> 
> When I "ll" the directory I get 
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  1  aharrington  students  ...
> 
> So it seems like everything is working except the permissions.  And if
> the root can get write permissions, I figure that has to mean that
> there is nothing from the Windows side getting in the way here?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Steve

Are the access permissions on the remote computer set correctly?

> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:05:32 -0600, Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:03:23PM -0800, 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 usually use something like:
> > 
> > mount -t smbfs -o username=student,password=abc123,uid=unixuid,gid=unixgid,umask=002 //sharename/Students /S-Drive
> > 
> > where username/password correspond to the Win2k user, uid/gid correspond
> > to the Linux user/group, and umask corresponds to the umask, giving the
> > uid user and gid group 775 access to the system.
> > 
> > Jeremy
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