Thanks alot. This seems to solve my problem.
Will
* On 06/16/00 rodd.snook@netdecisions.co.uk wrote:
> On 16 June 2000 06:42 William Clements <whc2u@leptonics.com> said
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently running linux kernel 2.2.12. I want to mount a
> > zip drive and access (rw) the drive from a Win 98 client throught
> > Samba. Currently, I have two 100 MB zip drives and a printer installed
> > on two parallel ports.
> > Every thing seems to load fine, and I can read and write to the disks
> > from linux, but don't seem to be able to write to them from Windows,
> > although I can read from them. (Samba is configured correctly and works
> > for every other occasion). (This actually seems more like a NFS
> > problem then a ppa problem.)
> >
> > Ok, in fstab I've specified (rw) for the devices, (sda4 and sdb4), and
> > the mode (mode=0666). But once the devices are mounted the directory
> > permissions don't reflect this but more along the lines of (0755).
> > chmod -c 0666 as root reports success, but the directory permissions
> > don't actually change, verfied by 'ls'. Any ideas?
>
> What are the permissions of the devices themselves (/dev/sd{a,b}4)
> and the mount points? If the device is not writable then the permissions on
> the files are irrelevant.
>
> What I normally do is create a group for each removable device (RedHat might
> do this by default) and chgrp the device to that group and give it 0775 or
> 0770 permissions. If the filesystem on the device does not support
> permissions
> (i.e. FAT/VFAT) then I specify something like "uid=0,gid=<whatever>,user" in
> the fstab. That way anyone in the right group can mount and access the
> drive.
>
> If you set up samba to grant access to the share to members of the group,
> and
> then force disk access with theat gid like so:
> force group = +zip
> valid users = +zip
> then you should be smiling.
>
> Cheers,
> Rodd
>
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