Writing to a Win98 share?

Rodger Haynes
2001-12-27T07:48:02Z

Have you specified a guest account in the global section, and does that guest
user have rights to the share?

SnuggleB wrote:

> Hi all. Very simple question, hopefully with a very simple answer....
>
> Here's my problem...
>
> I'm mounting a Windows98(se) share (yes, with full permissions, no
password)
> onto my Linux box. Mounts just fine, all users can read from it perfectly.
>
> However, NO users except for root can write to the share! How can I fix
> this?
>
> Here's my mount line for the share from /etc/fstab:
>
> //mav/mav_z  /mnt/mav_z  smbfs  user  0  0
>
> I've tried mounting it with "mount /mnt/mav_z" which works,
and I've also
> tried using "mount -t smbfs -o guest,rw,fmask=0777 //mav/mav_z
/mnt/mav_z"
> which also works. Same result though, can't write to the share!
>
> Someone on IRC suggested I add "umask=000", but all that gives me
is the
> "Usage instructions" for mount.
>
> Please help, I'm getting desperate here!
>
> Mike Chaney
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