redhat9 samba shares on mounted drives problem

[BobOmega]

hows that for a descriptive title?

anywho, i haven't posted in awhile...

today i merged my 2 linux servers (web and file) and i picked red-hat 9 for the heck of it. (was using slackware and mandrake, respectivly)

now, so far i have just about everything configed, except samba and my mounted drives.
when they are mounted in /mnt or anything else i cannot access them from windows.

samba is likely setup right, its a premissions thing i think. (this is the reason the fileserver was on drake and not slack, drake would let me change the premissions on the directories which would fix this problem, but slack would not)

i'd like to not isntall a diffrent disrto as this is the fastest setup i've done with apache and everything else.

all the drives are fat32 mounted in fstab

basicly the question is how can i get it to let me have write access to my mounted drives?

i think i might have rambled a bit too much, so post anything you need clarified.

specs.
acorp dual cpu mobo
dual 1ghz p3's
3xxmb ram
40gb wd
40gb maxtor
60gb maxtor
120gb wd
hp cd writer
tnt2 vid card,
nics
promiss ata100 controller

thats all the specs i can think of

[graphic23]

In your /etc/fstab, on the particular line where windows is mentioned, it should say

ro

somewhere on the line, if you change it to 'rw', it might help.

[BobOmega]

i had to make all the fstab entries myself, so there is no ro/rw on the mounted lines.
if thats all it'll take can you post an example line?

[graphic23]

I don't use Samba right now. That was just a guess. I also had a similar problem and the 'rw' fixed it. Sorry.

[Ptrper]

What does your samba.conf look like? Did you make inheritable permissions=yes? What account are you accessing samba with?

Finally, when you chmod your shares, which parameters did you give it? 666? 777?

Also, check the following link for examples of what your fstab should look like to be able to write to your fat32 partitions.

http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/14/1.php

In fact, I just mounted fat32 partitions residing on a drive normally used by MS Windows Server 2003 so I can access them with a Mac. Make sure you change the ro to rw and that you change umask=000 to umask=022.

Have fun!

[wctyler]

I think you're probably having a permissions problem. If it's mounted as /mnt/drive1, then you need to make sure that the user specified in SAMBA has authority to access that directory in the system side.

For instance, I allow public/anonymous access to my samba shares (home network). I specified in the samba server security settings that the guest account is 'publik'. Likewise, I had to grant the user 'publik' permission to use the directory I was sharing.