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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