ok Mac IT guys - Samba

[SteveB]

have I mentioned lately that I hate Samba?

Anyway, I have a drive on a Windows 7 machine I want to use for music storage. For the life of me though I can't convince my Mac ( OS 10.6.7) to mount this drive writable. Sharing is "on" the Win 7 machine, I have an account on the win7 machine that matches the logged in account on the Mac, I even turned off "password required for sharing" in the win7 box. In permissions for the Win7 I've enabled both "Everybody" and the specific account to have full access. I saw something online about samba on mac so I turned off "unix extensions" in the smb.conf file on the mac. Still no joy, it always mounts with permissions of drwx------.

any ideas?

[mathman]

have I mentioned lately that I hate Samba?

Anyway, I have a drive on a Windows 7 machine I want to use for music storage. For the life of me though I can't convince my Mac ( OS 10.6.7) to mount this drive writable. Sharing is "on" the Win 7 machine, I have an account on the win7 machine that matches the logged in account on the Mac, I even turned off "password required for sharing" in the win7 box. In permissions for the Win7 I've enabled both "Everybody" and the specific account to have full access. I saw something online about samba on mac so I turned off "unix extensions" in the smb.conf file on the mac. Still no joy, it always mounts with permissions of drwx------.

any ideas?

I haven't use samba very much at all, but

How are privilege settings in windows for the shared drive?

That and the workgroup name were things I remember having problems with.

[Turdus]

Steve - I'm a UNIX guy, and have only used Samba to share from UNIX -> Windows.

I'm also not a MAC guy but when you start talking permissions (and what you list is very UNIX like), I found this on Wikipedia that may help.

"Most operating systems require root permissions to mount a network drive. If you receive a (Access denied) or other equivalent error message change to root user and try again. When the share is mounted it will use the root user id by default, meaning you will be unable to read/write the share as any other user. To allow other users/groups to utilize the share use the command line option -o uid=userid,gid=groupid ."

[chewie37]

Something about your post rings a bell - ran in to this when I got my first Mac a few years ago. If I remember right, the wrinkle probably isn't with your Windows 7 system - more likely it's a "feature" of OSX. Apple & Microsoft have had a weirdly incestuous relationship over the years, and I think one of the byproducts is how OSX deals with NTFS file systems. Probably a patent/licensing snit at the heart of things. . .

But anyway, pretty sure OSX can "read" an NTFS partition all day long. But out of the box it can't "write" to an NTFS partition. Do a little googling on Mac Fuse and also on ntfs 3g. One or the other (or a combination of the two) should get you what you're looking for.

[sixesandsevens]

Something about your post rings a bell - ran in to this when I got my first Mac a few years ago. If I remember right, the wrinkle probably isn't with your Windows 7 system - more likely it's a "feature" of OSX. Apple & Microsoft have had a weirdly incestuous relationship over the years, and I think one of the byproducts is how OSX deals with NTFS file systems. Probably a patent/licensing snit at the heart of things. . .

But anyway, pretty sure OSX can "read" an NTFS partition all day long. But out of the box it can't "write" to an NTFS partition. Do a little googling on Mac Fuse and also on ntfs 3g. One or the other (or a combination of the two) should get you what you're looking for.

While the parts about NTFS and OS X are true, that shouldn't be an issue here since OS X should be able to write to SMB shares. Windows will effectively hide the NTFS-ish-ness from the mac.

If he was mounting it directly from a connected drive (like an external USB drive), the issues about NTFS would be front and center.

SteveB - Did you get everything working?