Samba and fat

[JoeyJoeJo]

I have an external firewire hard drive that has vfat on it. It works fine for all users, read and write. The only problem is with samba. When I try to access the share I made for it from any other computer, I get an access denied error. I shared my /mnt folder, but I got the same message that way. Everyone can access my other shares, just not my firewire drive. Is this because it's fat?

[retsaw]

Just a thought, try mounting the drive inside one of your existing working shares to see if that works, and don't forget the umask=000 option.

[sclebo05]

i don't think it would be because the drive is fat. permissions is the issue here. are regular users able to write to it as a mounted drive? if so, check the access rights in your smb.conf

[DMR]

Originally posted by sclebo05
i don't think it would be because the drive is fat. permissions is the issue here.
Correct. Samba can definitely share out a FAT filesystem if both your Linux and Samba permissions for the share are configured properly.

As already suggested:

1. Use the "umask=000" option when mounting the drive. That will give the FAT filesystem the effective permissions of 777 (r-w-x).

2. Verify that you have the desired permissions for share set in smb.conf.