On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Mukund Deshmukh mukund.deshmukh@gmail.comwrote:
As Arun had asked, how do your Linux machines talk to the Samba machine?
Shares are mounted as mount.cifs ...................user=xxx,pass=xxx,uid=0,gid=0
Any problem with uid gid? By the way linux machines are running slax and puppy linux, and it has only root user.
Out of curiosity, I looked up slax and couldn't resist downloading it and burning it into a CD. I must say it is a bomb. Out of its many boot options, it has one where the cd is copied to the RAM (min. required 330MB) and that frees the CD drive so that one can use it for burning data from HDDs in the live session itself. It uses kde and a 2.6.27 kernel so new hardware should not be a pproblem. After some hiccups, I managed to login via gui into a user created later ( The system has only root) and vice versa. After a long time I came across a distro that has vi working out of the box. It has mc for those who like it. Overall a very good utility for taking backups into CDs or simply using a light weight but serious distro with user mode.
Anyway coming to the point, you could use the gui utility to 'Add a network folder' in 'Remote Places' using the correct protocol. Then see how new files get permissions in your destination folder.