[wellylug] Sharing with windows

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 17:25 +1200, E.Chalaron wrote:
> 
> > 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.

make sure you haven't gotten any type of firewall running on windoze..
often there is one with the anti-virus program.

(And I assume there is a reason why you can't just plug the drive into
your linux box? :-)

cheers,

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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