I am not using SAMBA, they are windows partitions defined in my fstab file...  They
mount, I can read to them, I can create directories on the partitions, but I can't copy
anything over, even as root...

Kevin Brown wrote:

> Can Samba work to mount partitions on the same computer (e.g. a dual boot
> system)???  It sounds like the windows partitions are being mounted in Read-Only
> mode for regular users.
>
> "J.L.Francois" wrote:
> >
> > Don't know which you are using.
> > Try both.
> >
> > 1. man smbmount
> >
> > /usr/sbin/smbmount //WINBOX/SHARE /mnt/winbox \
> > -U MYNAME -c MOUNTINGHOST -P Password -f 000 -d 000 \
> > -u AnyUserToUseAsMountUserID -g GroupForThatUSER
> >
> > 2. man mount
> >
> > mode=value
> >
> > example: mode=0777
> >
> > Orig Msg> I have windows partitions, and I want to move some of my work to them so
> > Orig Msg> I can access the files in Windows.  When I try as a user or as root, it
> > Orig Msg> won't let me copy anything to the windows part of my hard drives...
> > Orig Msg> I have tried chown on them and chmod, but it won't allow me to change
> > Orig Msg> them...  It allows me to write to the partitions as root, but doesn't
> > Orig Msg> allow me to copy files to it?  What am I doing wrong?
> > Orig Msg>
> > Orig Msg> Thanks,
> > Orig Msg>
> > Orig Msg> Eric
> >
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