Ramon
You did understand me correctly the first time round.
Perhaps my lack of experience in this is confusing
everybody. let me try to clarify:
I have a Windows 2000 Server where all documents for all
the users on my network (about 30 Windows 2000 and Win XP
machines) save their day to day work (Word and Excel files
mostly). There are shared directoriesd on this server as
well that people can access.
What I want to do is basically try to get a Mandrake 9.2
desktop machine to save to this Windows 2000 Server.
I managed by usinf smbfs mount the directories I need from
the Win2000 Server, I can also read and open any files I
want. But I cannot save to the server. I have not set up
Samba server and hence Winbind, and since this is my first
go I am a bit hesitant to experiment on a live network
with 30 users! The Mandrake machine is basically the one I
want to use.
Did I confuse everyone?
Mario
On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:24:32 +0200
Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think I misunderstood you first time round. I thought
you were trying to
access the files via network.
If you're trying to write to an NTFS partition and it
only succeeds as root,
the mounting options in your /etc/fstab prohibit writing
as any other users.
You can set the parameters in the fstab file to specify
which user appears as
the owner of the files, and which mode the files appear
as. You can find more
details in the man page for mount.
On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:42, Mario Debono wrote:
Ramon
I've finally got round to this again! What I find
curious
is that if I log on to the Mandrake Machine using root I
can access the folders I want and save to them on the
Windows 2000 Server, however when I log on as a normal
user on the Mandrake machine I can view, open read and
access all folders I need but I cannot save to the
folder.
Do you still think it's a Winbind issue? Also I do not
have Samba Server running on the network as this desktop
would be the only Linux machine on the network.
What do you think?
Mario
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:01:55 +0200
Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's almost certainly the file-sharing permissions on
the
>server. If you
>are using a Win2K machine as an authentication server
>(ie, "Login to
>Windows NT Domain" on Windows), you will need to setup
>Samba's winbind
>service to retrieve user names and group names from the
>2000 server.
>Once you have logged in via WinBind, the 2000 server
will
>recognise your
>user as a valid username.
>
>Try to check how the 2000 server is reporting your
>username when you
>connect from Linux.
>
>On 2004-04-14 at 08:39, Mario Debono wrote:
>> I want to Save from my Linux desktop to my Windows 2K
>>server.
>>
>> Here is my problem and probably one of two last
>>remaining issues before
>> I migrate to Linux at the office. I can manage to
access
>>the Windows 2K
>> server and open my documents etc but I cannot save to
>>the server. I get
>> access denied. Probably it is an issue related to
>>rights.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Mario
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