Samba with Windows XP client

[Tim]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:20 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I don't actually want to write on the Windows machine,
> unless that is required somehow by Samba.
> As I mentioned, my only reason for setting up Samba
> is to backup the Windows machine on my Linux server.

You probably don't need it to be writeable, though something might want
to update the "file was last opened date," and/or change the archive bit
(does Windows still do that?), but it doesn't actually have to do those
things when copying files.

> Incidentally, I notice that both folders in question
> (one of which I can browse with Samba, and the other not)
> have "Read-only" checked, and I am apparently unable to uncheck this.

Where are you trying to undo the read-only setting?  Locally on the
machine that's sharing the resource, or on the remote one that's
accessing it?  Without some special Samba interactivity, I don't expect
the Linux box to be able to remotely change the permissions on the
Windows box.  And you might need admin privileges to change them on the
Windows (depending on how it was made read-only, or who by).

If you share out something as read-only, you've set a limit on what can
be done with the resource, remotely.

Not that I particularly know how to resolve these things, as I'm well
out of practice with Windows, but someone else might once you give them
a fuller description.

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