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

[Steve Hargadon]

> You can't chmod mountpoint permissions where the underlying FS doesn't
> support permissions.  man mount and read the umask/fmask uid/gid options
> for your filesystem.

OK, I understand.

> 
> The underlying filesystem is (mostly) orthogonal to use of SMB/CIFS.
> The networking protocol handles the underlying file permissions.  RTFM
> for particulars, as filesystems which have *no* u/g/w symantics present
> their own special curves.
> 

This I cannot understand.  I must go back into my cave and continue my
studies...


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Steve Hargadon
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