This sounds a little tricky. One problem is that vfat partitions don't have any "real" permissions. The way you have the samba share coded below with "public=yes" means samba will use the guest user "Nobody" to access the vfat files. If you have the vfat partition mounted at boot time in /etc/fstab, then it was mounted by root. You might try changing /etc/fstab to add the "user" option to the vfat partition, then mount it as user "Nobody". Then, the samba public user should be able to write to it. Regards, Keith --- Ulrich Schneider wrote:

Imagine the following situation:

- computer 1 has linux running and there is a vfat partition mounted - computer 1 is running samba on that vfat partition (i.e. the vfat partition is a share of samba) - computer 2 wants to have write acces on the samba share

The problem is, that computer 2 has no write acces, because the vfat partition is mounted 755.

The samba.conf file is the following: [public] comment = Schreibbares Verzeichnis path=/home/sure/netzwerk/public public=yes readonly=no browseable=yes create mask=777

How can I make the partition mounted as mod 777 ? Thanks in advance !

Ulrich Schneider

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If you are mounting the vfat as nobody, you might try adding your own user ID to the group "nogroup". Keith --- Ulrich Schneider wrote:

Ah, thank you ! That works fine. The only disadvantage is, that I don`t have write permission from my linux account. Is there a solution to have write acces from both systems ?

-- Ulrich Schneider

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Hi, Tried SuSE 7.1 last February, but it would not work with my hard modem. Bought 7.3 and a US Robotics 5386d and it still will not work. Tried Intialization string from the USR CD, but does the same thing as only "ATZ". Error code #17 , can't find "/var/log/syslog.ppp and /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages". It connects at 44-48,000, but kppp dies immediately after connection. The IP help person and I could not figure it out. The SuSE support documents gave me the intialization tips, but they did not solve it. Works great under ME. I first tried Mandrake 8.0, and it did not work, thought I'd give Linux another, try but to date only Caldera 2.4 was able to get another older modem working. Quite discouraging for newbies like me who would like to switch permanently from Windows. AMD 1.2 512meg RAM AOpen 73pro motherboard. Thanks for any help. Keith