samba - Mar 2000 - Sharing Dos/Windows drives from a Linux system

How can I do this?
I have a samba server running on RedHat Linux.  The server is actually a
dual boot machine, and has Windows drives which I have mounted under
Linux, so that /mnt/dosC is the C: drive when booted under DOS.  Also,
this machine has a Zip drive connected to it and known as /mnt/zip.
>From a Windows 98 machine connected to this machine, connecting through
Samba, I can see these shares.  I can read any file in them.  I cannot,
however, write to these shares, even though they are specified as
writable.

Is this even possible and if so how?

I have tried using fstype=FAT, or fstype=samba or fstype=NTFS to no
avail.

Here are the share portions of my smb.conf (note: MesaVerde is the host
name).

[mvD]
    path = /mnt/dosD
    comment = Drive D on MesaVerde's Dos partition
    writeable = yes
    guest ok = yes

[zip]
   path = /mnt/zip
   comment = MesaVerde's zip drive
   writeable = yes
   guest ok = yes

What must I do to be able to write to these drives over samba?

[Steve Cohen]
> has Windows drives which I have mounted under Linux, so that
> /mnt/dosC is the C: drive when booted under DOS.  Also, this machine
> has a Zip drive connected to it and known as /mnt/zip.
> 
> >From a Windows 98 machine connected to this machine, connecting
> through Samba, I can see these shares.  I can read any file in them.
> I cannot, however, write to these shares, even though they are
> specified as writable.
Sounds like a simple Unix permissions problem.  Does the same user have 
permission to write to those directories from Unix?

Since msdos and vfat under Linux do not store any file access
information (other than the MS-DOS `readonly' bit), the whole mounted
partition is owned by a single user and group and is set to a single
permission mask.  Investigate the `uid=', `gid=' and `umask='
options
you can put in your fstab.  (`man 8 mount')

Peter

Hey Steve, funny meeting you here. (inside joke).  I've done something
similar to this.  I had a fat parition that was mounted to a Linux box
that I shared to via Samba to a win95 box to provide (read and write)
access to an Outlook mailbox file.

There's probably more than one way to do it.  

I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda4	/mdrive	vfat	noauto,user	0 0

Which permits the ordinary user to mount this drive.

I then added an entry to my rc.local file that says:

su WIN95ID -c "/bin/mount /mdrive"

This mounts the drive with the same user id as the id that I log into
the win95 machine.   The win95 machine automounts the share and I'm
good.


Steve Cohen wrote:
> 
> How can I do this?
> I have a samba server running on RedHat Linux.  The server is actually a
> dual boot machine, and has Windows drives which I have mounted under
> Linux, so that /mnt/dosC is the C: drive when booted under DOS.  Also,
> this machine has a Zip drive connected to it and known as /mnt/zip.
> 
> >From a Windows 98 machine connected to this machine, connecting through
> Samba, I can see these shares.  I can read any file in them.  I cannot,
> however, write to these shares, even though they are specified as
> writable.
> 
> Is this even possible and if so how?
> 
> I have tried using fstype=FAT, or fstype=samba or fstype=NTFS to no
> avail.
> 
> Here are the share portions of my smb.conf (note: MesaVerde is the host
> name).
> 
> [mvD]
>     path = /mnt/dosD
>     comment = Drive D on MesaVerde's Dos partition
>     writeable = yes
>     guest ok = yes
> 
> [zip]
>    path = /mnt/zip
>    comment = MesaVerde's zip drive
>    writeable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
> 
> What must I do to be able to write to these drives over samba?
--
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...