"Gordon" a écrit dans le message de
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> I have a lan with one Windows XP laptop and one PCLinuxos TR3 desktop.
> On the desktop I have two directories in my Home Directory that are
shared,
> called Documents and Computing. the share properties are, as far as I
can
> see ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL on each directory. When I access the
Documents
> directory from the Win XP laptop, I can create and delete
sub-directories.
> When I access the Computing directory and try to create a
sub-directory
> there, I get "access denied" and yet as I said, as far as I can see
the
> share properties are EXACTLY the same for both. Can anyone suggest why
I
> should have write access to one and not the other?

Hello,

what's your type of share?
cifs? nfs? another protocol ?

please, provide more informations.

Regards,
Mobidyc

mobidyc wrote:


> Hello,
>
> what's your type of share?
> cifs? nfs? another protocol ?

Samba

"Gordon" a écrit dans le message de
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> mobidyc wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > what's your type of share?
> > cifs? nfs? another protocol ?
>
> Samba

Ok,

did you see something in your logs ?
eventually, launch your samba server with the flag "-d 5"

vi /etc/init.d/samba and modify the good lines.
in my gentoo, i've a header with:
opts="${opts} reload"

still look in your logs and post here.

Regards,
Mobidyc

In comp.os.linux.networking Gordon wrote:
> I have a lan with one Windows XP laptop and one PCLinuxos TR3 desktop.

You posted this question elsewhere. See the followup(s) there and PLEASE
don't post the same question multiple times.

Chris

Chris Davies wrote:


> You posted this question elsewhere. See the followup(s) there and PLEASE
> don't post the same question multiple times.
>

I wasn't subscribed to these groups at the time I posted elsewhere.....

mobidyc wrote:

>
> "Gordon" a écrit dans le message de
> news:57f5dfF2bfb9nU1@mid.individual.net...
>> mobidyc wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > what's your type of share?
>> > cifs? nfs? another protocol ?
>>
>> Samba
>
> Ok,
>
> did you see something in your logs ?
> eventually, launch your samba server with the flag "-d 5"
>
> vi /etc/init.d/samba and modify the good lines.
> in my gentoo, i've a header with:
> opts="${opts} reload"
>
> still look in your logs and post here.
>
> Regards,
> Mobidyc

Fixed - the smb.conf file was missing two lines under the offending
section...

Gordon wrote:
> I have a lan with one Windows XP laptop and one PCLinuxos TR3 desktop.
> On the desktop I have two directories in my Home Directory that are shared,
> called Documents and Computing. the share properties are, as far as I can
> see ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL on each directory. When I access the Documents
> directory from the Win XP laptop, I can create and delete sub-directories.
> When I access the Computing directory and try to create a sub-directory
> there, I get "access denied" and yet as I said, as far as I can see the
> share properties are EXACTLY the same for both. Can anyone suggest why I
> should have write access to one and not the other?

What about the file permissions. Does the Linux user that the Windows
user is mapped to have the same linux file permissions in both directories?

....kurt