Copying/moving files from a Samba share

Joe Tseng joe_tseng at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 21 01:28:48 UTC 2007


Crap...  I discovered this by accident...  I was able to do everything 
including what I couldn't do before as soon as I turned off network file and 
folder sharing on the WinXP side.

Thx for the responses.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Copying/moving files from a Samba share


> Joe Tseng wrote:
>> I just recently discovered that I'm unable to copy or move files from my
>> Samba server to my WinXP box, but I am able to do everything else (read,
>> create, edit and delete files, copy between directories on the Samba
>> share, and copy/move from WinXP to the share).  I wouldn't know where to
>> start looking on how to fix this - has anyone seen this before?
>
> So, if I understand correctly, the only thing that doesn't work is when 
> the
> destination is the XP system.  My first thought is that it indicates an
> issue on the destination side.  So, I suppose I would check the log on the
> XP system first.  Are you doing the transfers as a "normal" user or
> Administrator? 




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