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

[Steve Hargadon]

Only because that's the way they had it set up, and I'm too ignorant
to know how to do it differently...


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:10:44 -0800, Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:10:33PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel (jjstickel at sbcglobal.net) wrote:
> > 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"
> 
> And you're proposing world *write* access *why*?
> 
> Peace.
> 
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