[Cialug] Re: Samba

[dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

NOC <noc@kulish.com> said:

> OK, I finally was able to connect to the share from my win2k box...
> Something was odd in the directory, so I just created a new one.
> 
> This share is located on the second physical disk (fat32).  Now I cant seem
> to change the properties of the mount point (muzak) when the disk is
> mounted?  I can read/write to it fine from the console, but I cant copy
> anything TO it over the network..  I have the share set as public,
> writeable, browseable.  Did I miss something here?

Any special reason why that partition is fat32? You can't do the proper file permission like you can on a ext2 partition. For instance, from a prompt on the linux box:

cp -a ~kulish/crap.txt /mnt/muzak/

It will warn you that it can't retain the permissions.

-dc