Greetings, I'm having a really hard time getting this to work the way I want it to. I have a Samba file server (3.0.25b-2) on Fedora 7 which serves around 20 clients (mostly WinXP but a couple of Macs). They all login via a single shared samba user which has full read/write permissions for the entire served directory. Unfortunately, I have two major problems: 1.) On an XP client, when copying a directory over to the server via Explorer, it is created with the read-only flag set. My immediate assumption was a permissions problem, BUT if I use XCOPY via the command prompt, then directories copy across fine. This is not an acceptable solution, however, since the average end-user doesn't even know what a command prompt is! If I manually create a folder on the server via Explorer (right click -> new folder) then it will be created WITHOUT the read-only flag set, so why this is only happening when copying pre-created directories is really beyond me :( 2.) More directory creation woe with Mac users. When they create a directory on the server via Finder, it doesn't create properly. If you refresh the folder it appears, but if you try to click on it so you can open it, then it just disappears. Refreshing again will make it re-appear, but you can never get in to it. They can use any pre-existing folders no problem, however. I do not purport to be a Samba expert, so if there's something obvious that I'm missing here I apologise in advance. Thank you for assistance, Edward
Sorry to be a pain, but does anybody have any ideas on this? Regards,> Greetings, > > I'm having a really hard time getting this to work the way I want it to. > I have a Samba file server (3.0.25b-2) on Fedora 7 which serves around 20 > clients (mostly WinXP but a couple of Macs). They all login via a single > shared samba user which has full read/write permissions for the entire > served directory. Unfortunately, I have two major problems: > > 1.) On an XP client, when copying a directory over to the server via > Explorer, it is created with the read-only flag set. My immediate > assumption was a permissions problem, BUT if I use XCOPY via the command > prompt, then directories copy across fine. This is not an acceptable > solution, however, since the average end-user doesn't even know what a > command prompt is! > > If I manually create a folder on the server via Explorer (right click -> > new folder) then it will be created WITHOUT the read-only flag set, so why > this is only happening when copying pre-created directories is really > beyond me :( > > 2.) More directory creation woe with Mac users. When they create a > directory on the server via Finder, it doesn't create properly. If you > refresh the folder it appears, but if you try to click on it so you can > open it, then it just disappears. Refreshing again will make it > re-appear, but you can never get in to it. They can use any pre-existing > folders no problem, however. > > I do not purport to be a Samba expert, so if there's something obvious > that I'm missing here I apologise in advance. > > Thank you for assistance, > > Edward
Greetings, I'm having a really hard time getting this to work the way I want it to. I have a Samba file server (3.0.25b-2) on Fedora 7 which serves around 20 clients (mostly WinXP but a couple of Macs). They all login via a single shared samba user which has full read/write permissions for the entire served directory. Unfortunately, I have two major problems: 1.) On an XP client, when copying a directory over to the server via Explorer, it is created with the read-only flag set. My immediate assumption was a permissions problem, BUT if I use XCOPY via the command prompt, then directories copy across fine. This is not an acceptable solution, however, since the average end-user doesn't even know what a command prompt is! If I manually create a folder on the server via Explorer (right click -> new folder) then it will be created WITHOUT the read-only flag set, so why this is only happening when copying pre-created directories is really beyond me :( 2.) More directory creation woe with Mac users. When they create a directory on the server via Finder, it doesn't create properly. If you refresh the folder it appears, but if you try to click on it so you can open it, then it just disappears. Refreshing again will make it re-appear, but you can never get in to it. They can use any pre-existing folders no problem, however. I do not purport to be a Samba expert, so if there's something obvious that I'm missing here I apologise in advance. Thank you for assistance, Edward