I’m using openSUSE 11.2, with some eSATA hard drives. For some reason, they’re set to read-only, and I can’t change it. I set parameters in fstab as fmask=113,dmask=002,umask=0002,rw
Oddly, I was able to delete a file in there, but my samba users have read-only access, and I can’t use chown or chmod: I get no error message, but nothing happens.
I’m guessing that these are NTFS drives mounted in the openSUSE operating system.
Q1: Is that right.
Q2: Are you sharing them by Samba to windows machines or to Linux machines?
Q3: are they USB attached drives or internal drives?
Q4: do you want to write to these partitions directly from the installed openSUSE O/S, or over the network, or both?
Please post here the returns you get when you run these commands in a console window:
Thanks – that should clue us in
PS you can’t chown or chmod fat or ntfs drives, you control those from the mount options.
A1: Yes.
A2: Windows machines.
A3: They’re eSATA drives, which I believe openSUSE recognises as internal drives.
A4: Both.
cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Crucial_CT64GBFAA0_-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Crucial_CT64GBFAA0_-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Crucial_CT64GBFAA0_-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AACS-00ZUB0_WD-WCASU2295671-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,umask=0002,rw,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU4C282604-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU4C273831-part1 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU4C271264-part1 /windows/F ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00M2B0_WD-WMAV50267588-part1 /windows/G ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 66.0 GB, 66018344960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8026 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00063a37
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 8026 41391472+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfee6fee6
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000613b2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000caba5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sde: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000794d7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009b5df
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdg: 1030 MB, 1030225920 bytes
4 heads, 3 sectors/track, 167680 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 12 * 512 = 6144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xedf0edf0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 21 167680 1005958+ b W95 FAT32
testparm -s
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[profiles]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Processing section "[file-server]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
[global]
workgroup = TRINITY
netbios name = FAMILY-SERVER
map to guest = Bad User
passdb backend = smbpasswd
name resolve order = wins bcast host lmhosts
printcap name = cups
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
idmap uid = 10000-20000
idmap gid = 10000-20000
cups options = raw
[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
store dos attributes = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
create mask = 0600
printable = Yes
browseable = No
browsable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin, root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[file-server]
comment = Shared files
path = /windows/C
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
Thanks. It would also be helpful to know how to set the owner at mount time.
What a coincidence, did we fully cover that over here:
Samba problem: not showing on the network - openSUSE Forums
If we did I’ll close the thread as solved
??
Oddly, yes… but my problems aren’t over yet (check the original thread).
Try editing each windows entry in fstab like this
ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
so one of your examples:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU4C282604-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
reboot required
Carl that’s absolutely the correct answer in normal circumstances. However the OP has additional requirements that you would not know about because they’re in another thread ==> The partition is being shared over a Samba workgroup, as outlined here:
Samba problem: not showing on the network - openSUSE Forums
and for that case OP needs to match the share permissions with the mount permissions like so:
ntfs-3g options string:
uid=billybob,gid=users,umask=0022
samba share code to match:
[file-server]
comment = Shared files
path = /windows/C
force user = billybob
guest ok = yes
read only = No
FYI and FWIW 