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I have my Win98 PC and Linux connected by Samba and I am able to view
the shares I have setup, but I don't have write access. How do I get
write access?

Before you answer a few notes:

I have Linux dual booting with Win2k and the two partitions for Win2k
are C and D and are Fat32. Linux is on its own partition.

When I installed Linux I called these drives /dosc and /dosd and these
are the drives I want to be able to access from Win98.

The following is the sections of my smb.conf file to map these drives.

                   [C]
                      comment = C Drive
                      path = /dosc
                      valid users = Name
                      public = no
                      read only = no
                      writeable = yes
                      printable = no
                      create mask = 0765

                   [D]
                      comment = D Drive
                      path = /dosd
                      valid users =Name
                      public = no
                      read only = no
                      writeable = yes
                      printable = no
                      create mask = 0765

Given this information, how can I get write access to these drives
from Win98?

ensure the folders on the box have the correct permissions?  in other words
they may only have read access but not write access.

(right click on the dos* folders and ensure that write access is checked).

just a thought (something you didn't mention w/i your post).

win98 to show linux in nb!!

Quote:> I have my Win98 PC and Linux connected by Samba and I am able to view
> the shares I have setup, but I don't have write access. How do I get
> write access?

> Before you answer a few notes:

> I have Linux dual booting with Win2k and the two partitions for Win2k
> are C and D and are Fat32. Linux is on its own partition.

> When I installed Linux I called these drives /dosc and /dosd and these
> are the drives I want to be able to access from Win98.

> The following is the sections of my smb.conf file to map these drives.

>                    [C]
>                       comment = C Drive
>                       path = /dosc
>                       valid users = Name
>                       public = no
>                       read only = no
>                       writeable = yes
>                       printable = no
>                       create mask = 0765

>                    [D]
>                       comment = D Drive
>                       path = /dosd
>                       valid users =Name
>                       public = no
>                       read only = no
>                       writeable = yes
>                       printable = no
>                       create mask = 0765

> Given this information, how can I get write access to these drives
> from Win98?

I think my problem is that I am trying to share the actual partition
(like hda5 and hda6). I have 3 - one has the Linux OS the other two
are empty.

Maybe this is not possible to do this way. I have tried everything I
can think of and have spent hours going over the Samba docs.

Thoughts?

Hi!
The loginname that you are using to admin Win9x should be maped to root
in the /etc/smbusers file like this:

root = administrator admin <or-what-you'r-using>

With regards
Pawel S

Well, first off, what are the permissions of the directories /dosc and
/dosd?  They need to be world writeable/readable/executable (chmod 777
/dos?).  Samaba unless you have individual user access setup, Samba browses
as user Guest (in windows too) and by default only the direcrories
owner/group can write to the dirs (normally root). I know it's a pain (and
a security hazzard), but unless you want to set up user access and all
that, you'll have to do it.  

pugfantus

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