[LUG] Samba problems :-(

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Walker wrote:

> John Daragon wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 26 February 2004 08:25, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> >
> > > Is SMB a reasonable alternative?  I tried to set up a 
> > > password-protected
> > > read/write "share" on Samba for my user only, and added a user with
> > > smbpasswd.  It mounts fine on my laptop, I can cd to the directory, but
> > > when I do an "ls", it hangs the terminal :-(
> > >   
> >
> > Apart from the fact that NT's propensity to preserve but ignore case 
> > in filenames occasionally gives us pause for thought, it's seamless. 
> > And it's the easiest way I've yet found of printing from NT on a *IX 
> > printer.
> >  
> Same here.  I have 3 or 4 linux boxes and WinXP sharing files (and 
> printer) quite happily. I do remember having a few problems in the 
> past but the newer systems have worked out of the box. I use 
> LinNeighbourhood on the desktop which works well for me.

Hmm, seems to be working now, although I still have permissions 
problems.  For instance, on the server, it's:

"drwxr-xr-x    3 jon      jon          4096 Jan 10 16:44 zero_7"

Whereas when I view the same directory mounted on my laptop over SMB, it 
becomes:

"dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         4096 Jul 20  2003 zero_7"

The share is supposed to be read/write for my user only, and is mounted 
by this line in fstab:

"//server/music  /home/jon/music smbfs   username=jon,password=pass,rw"

TIA,

Jon


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