[aklug] Re: Samba and OSX [Solved]

OK. I'll setup the scenario again.

I'm trying to use a USB Vfat drive shared via samba to an OSX 10.5.8 client.

The problem I kept having is it was reporting:

You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this operation (or =20
something close to that)

Without all the boring details, two things seemed most important. =20
First is the fstab for mount this device:

/dev/sda1 /media/My\040Book auto =20
umask=3D0002,uid=3Dbarsalou,gid=3Dshared,shortname=3Dmixed

This is all one line btw.

The second is the stanza:

[music]
available =3D yes
browseable =3D yes
writable =3D yes
create mask =3D 02770
directory mask =3D 02770
force group =3D +shared
force user =3D barsalou
path =3D "/media/My Book/iTunes"

The most important bits here seem to be the uid,gid entries in the =20
fstab and the force group and force user in the stanza.

This only seems to be true on the USB mounted vfat drive. I don't =20
really believe the USB part has anything to do with it, but thought I =20
would add the detail in case it does.

I'm not completely sure why but it definitely has to do with permissions.

Anyone have a non-USB vfat partition that they can share with Samba to =20
an OSX client?

Mike B.

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Received on Thu Aug 6 22:43:05 2009