[wellylug] Sharing with windows

E.Chalaron e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz
Sat Jul 15 17:25:13 NZST 2006



> Under Windows, there can be two sorts of permissions, file permissions
> and share permissions. File permissions only apply to NTFS file systems
> and most external disks use FAT or FAT32 file systems so only share
> permissions apply.

Ha .. Ok, must look for both, but I think that eveyrone has "RWX" permission. 
And in my case the external HD is NTFS since for 500 Gb I have 10 files of 
50Gb ..

> Assuming the permissions are correct, I would use the smbclient utility
> to test out the access before trying to mount anything. smbclient will
> show you any shares on that box.

I tried with the sharename as well...
I must probably restart the windows machine... I have not done that yet.

Thansk a lot
E




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