Re: access denied

[John Summerfield <summer OS2 ami com au>]

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Bill Gilmore wrote:

> I am trying to copy some files from an NT 4.0 workstation to a vfat partition on my Linux server.  I have put the following into my local.rc file:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cm_7

Most people would add an entry to /etc/fstab
> 
> in my smb.conf file I have:
> 
> # Share CM_7
> [cm_7]
>     comment = CM_7 share
>     path = /mnt/cm_7
>     valid users = blah1 blah2
>     public = no
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
>  
> I can use Mr. Network's Neighborhood on the NT 4.0 workstation to map this share as drive L:, but when I try to copy files to L: i get "access denied".
> 
> What am I doing wrong this time?

If you're not one of the valid users, you'll get this.

You could consider using smbtar on Linux to get the files. I recently found
it easier than fiddling around for ever in Win95. You'll need to share the
relevant folder on NT.


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John Summerfield
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