i was able to do this by reformatting the drive and it worked already. i didn't have the chance to examine the logs tho.
anyway, thanks, jijo! --- Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 at 22:24, Junn Flores wrote: > > i got mandrake 8.1 running but my win98 clients > can read but not write > > on my two separate xfs drives (40gb seagate > barracuda) which is shared > > on samba. they could fully access the /home > directory (ext3) however > > which is on my boot drive (same kind). > > What do the Samba logs say? The standard system > logs? Can you access the > files locally? Also, since your home shares are > exported quite > differently, I'd check permissions and the > directives in your smb.conf > file for your non-/home shares. > > > i want to have a bite on xfs and probably on jfs, > so i hope i wouldn't > > need to convert them to ext3. > > Well, it's been done (we use XFS here for the home > directories and the > other data directories exported via Samba), and > aside from the smbfs 2GB > limit things are known to be smooth between XFS and > Samba so I wouldn't > give up if I were you. :) > > --> Jijo > > -- > Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, > Inc. > GnuPG Key: > <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives > at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send > "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
