Samba continued . . .

[zscoundrel]

Well, of course!  but you may want to play with it a bit more first.

I know a couple of proprietary file systems will mount read-only under 
Linux because they haven't quite completely reverse engineered the file 
system for writing.  Reading is usually non-destructive, while writing 
to a foreign OS formatted drive can be very tricky.

Although I wasn't aware that the file system used for 'doze98 was one of 
the ones that mounted read only.

Are you sure this wasn't an NT, 2k or XP formatted drive?

Bradley Miller wrote:

> Ok -- I think I've narrowed this down a bit.
> 
> Drive # 2 in my system is a Win98 formatted drive.  I wanted to leave it
> that way just for giggles . . . I didn't know what was on it.  Mandrake
> mounted it as /mnt/windows.  It's owned by root.  I can't touch it unless I
> log in as root.  I guess I must have copied MP3's from my login directory
> to that drive . . . I swore I copied them direct to the Samba mapping, but
> from what I've tried, I must have been in error.
> 
> So, the short answer is, you can't map a Win98 (or any other OS I'm
> assuming??) drive to Samba because the permissions will be wrong.  You can
> read, but you can't write.  In a way it makes sense . . . 
> 
> I guess what I'll do is just partition that other 2nd drive as a Linux
> native format and that should solve the problem.  Right?
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
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