Dave Ihnat wrote:
How exactly does one determine if one has full rights on a folder?
Doesn't the fact that I can browse through a folder on the Windows
machine show that I have full rights on the folder?
You'd think. Right-click on a folder--if you're running XP Pro, you can
then click on
Tim wrote:
Doesn't the fact that I can browse through a folder on the Windows
machine show that I have full rights on the folder?
It only requires partial rights to just be able to read a folder, more
rights are involved if you're allowed to write to a folder. So, no.
OK.
But I don't
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:20 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I don't actually want to write on the Windows machine,
unless that is required somehow by Samba.
As I mentioned, my only reason for setting up Samba
is to backup the Windows machine on my Linux server.
You probably don't need it to be
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:14:57AM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I am running XP Pro with SP3 (as specified by Control Panel=System).
But if I right click on a folder I see a Sharing and Security tab
(not a Security tab) but this gives no information on who has permissions.
Nor does
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:55 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
At the very least, it would be lovely if Fedora user desktops could
reliably network with -themselves-.
I use NFS for that, works brilliantly. I see no point in adding the
foibles of Samba into my computer networking. Though, long ago when I
Bengt-Erik Soderstrom wrote:
There is, perhaps, an easier way:
Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find
your Windows computer. Windows-Network then Resource MSHome then the
computer name MyComputer and voila: You have access to all the files
you have defined to be
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:01 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
in theory what you suggest should work. but I've certainly had plenty
of cases where for reasons unknown to me I couldn't browse to a
particular machine or share, but could manually mount it just fine.
I second this. I have -never-
roland wrote:
I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine,
and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client,
by sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win.
This works OK, but I am not able to browse on the Windows machine.
Am I misunderstanding something about how Samba works?
Do I need to
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 13:56:03 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Bengt-Erik Soderstrom wrote:
There is, perhaps, an easier way:
Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find
your Windows computer. Windows-Network then Resource MSHome then the
computer name MyComputer and
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:35:28PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I've tried the above command, but the result is exactly the same.
I can connect to harriet:C , say, but when I browse
eg to Documents and Settings\tim
permission to list is refused.
You have to
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:28:04PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks for the response.
What puzzles me is that I never have any problem
accessing all files and folders if I login on the Windows machine
(with the same name and password that I use in Samba).
If that's the case, then I suspect
Dave Ihnat wrote:
I've tried the above command, but the result is exactly the same.
I can connect to harriet:C , say, but when I browse
eg to Documents and Settings\tim
permission to list is refused.
You have to make sure that permissions on the Windows box allow the
user/password with
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:28 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Doesn't the fact that I can browse through a folder on the Windows
machine show that I have full rights on the folder?
It only requires partial rights to just be able to read a folder, more
rights are involved if you're allowed to write
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:12:04PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine,
and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client,
by sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win.
This works OK, but I am not able to browse on the Windows machine.
Am I
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:25 +0100, fred smith
fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:12:04PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine,
and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client,
by sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win.
This
There is, perhaps, an easier way:
Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find
your Windows computer. Windows-Network then Resource MSHome then the
computer name MyComputer and voila: You have access to all the files
you have defined to be shared on your Windows
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:01:13AM +0100, Bengt-Erik Soderstrom wrote:
There is, perhaps, an easier way:
Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find
your Windows computer. Windows-Network then Resource MSHome then the
computer name MyComputer and voila: You have
in theory what you suggest should work. but I've certainly had plenty
of cases where for reasons unknown to me I couldn't browse to a
particular machine or share, but could manually mount it just fine.
I second this. I have -never- gotten Windows Network browsing to work
reliably, under
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:01 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
I second this. I have -never- gotten Windows Network browsing to work
reliably, under either the latest versions of Ubuntu or Fedora. And
that's after browsing through numerous Samba packages and firewall
settings posts for both distros
But it has to be said that Windows networking can be a nightmare in its
native environment. After fault finding other people's systems, I've
reached the conclusion that it's been badly designed, and never sensibly
fixed up.
I'd agree with this almost completely, with about one exception:
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