At 04:08 PM 5/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 15:16, Gary Dunn wrote:
>
> > On my LM 8.1 box "man fstab" points me to "man mount" for those options,
> > and there, around line 850, I find:
> >
> > Mount options for ntfs
> > [snip]
> >
> >        uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
> >               Set the file  permission  on  the  filesystem.   By
> >               default,  the files are owned by root and not read�
> >               able by somebody else.
> >
> > That last sentence sounds relevant to this situation. I find no mention
> > of fmask or dmask.
>
>True, but that's ntfs, not smbfs. If you want to see the options for
>smbfs, do "man smbmount". You can also set uid/gid, but it sounded to me
>more like she was asking how to make public shares.

Oh. So the "ntfs" stuff is for mounting a Windows NT partition on the same 
computer, then? Samba does such a good job that I failed to make the 
distinction.

Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project


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