Thankyou all those who replied but especially to Hamish. I have it working
at work now, hopefully the same method will work at home..
This worked (giving rw access):-
* smbmount //servername/foldername /home/robert/foldername/ -o
username=robert,password=xxxxxx
(And I do not need to be root for the above to work)
These gave read only access:-
* mount -t smbfs -o username=robert,password=xxxxxx
//servername/foldername /home/robert/foldername/
* mount -t smbfs -o username=guest //servername/foldername
/home/robert/foldername/
Now that I seem to have a solution, it would still be interesting to know
why my previous methods were not completely successful.
Robert
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Robert
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
-----Original Message-----
From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 9:33 a.m.
To: Linux Users Group (E-mail)
Subject: Rights to windows shares
Last time I asked this question I got no replies but I am
not giving up.
We have, at home, several Windows boxes with shared folders
which we can read and write to from other Windows boxes.
I can also read and write to my Samba shares on my Linux
boxes from the Windows boxes.
My problem is that I do not have the ability to write to the
Windows shares from my Linux boxes using smbfs (read access is fine)
All ideas will be gratefully accepted (I am sure this must
be something simple I have missed).
TIA, Rob
