please help, desperate, weird problem realting to ftp and samba shares and filesystem access thx :)

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jody Gugelhupf <knueffle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi ppl :)
> I have a fresh install of ubuntu hardy (let's call this machine 1), i have several machines mainly unix machines on the network, i have setup samba, it works without problem between all clients. I also have a ftp running on machine 1, in the ftp dir i have all sorts of directories, including shares from other machines, which i mounted there with samba, i can see all files access everything and the rights are set correctly too, i can also download anything from machine 1's ftp directory as long as it is physically in that machines, when i try to download something from a mounted directory i get 2 different errors from several clients i have tried:

You are trying to download a directory that is a samba share mounted
in an ftp share?

Why can't you just mount the samba share directly instead of hopping thru ftp?

Brian