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

[Jody Gugelhupf]

--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: please help, desperate, weird problem realting to ftp and samba shares and filesystem access thx :)
> To: knueffle at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Received: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 10:19 PM
> 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?

yes a directory or a file in the directory does not matter

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

of course i could, but i run a server accessible from outside the network, anyhow i need the ftp but the problem is really weird, since i did the reintall of ubuntu it won'twork anymore...


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