Yep,

Tried mount -t smbfs -o rw username etc. etc.
And mount -t smbfs -o rw, username etc. etc

Both gave Usage: etc. etc.........For many more details, say man 8 mount

Robert

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Monday, 25 August 2003 4:09 p.m.
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Rights to windows shares

did you try mount -t smbfs with "-o rw,..."

I used to believe that mount -t smbfs and smbmount did equivalent
mounts.


On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:15:57 +1200
"Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
> 

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