Problem with access to one share

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This is very strange....

I installed an Amahi server for a friend (using the express CD). Generally working well, but I do have a couple of strange problems.

First, I added a large drive for file storage. Wasn't aware that there was an inbuilt method of adding the drive, so I manually added it. Modified /etc/fstab as below:

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UUID=0368930e-353e-4757-8f11-db4e15f5e9f3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=433f7485-c355-446d-a47b-3afb7106c630 swap swap defaults 0 0 #UUID=557c1e1a-6431-4b46-9d1b-441b9ac2d916 /var/hda/files/utilities ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb5 /var/hda/files/utilities ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I had already partitioned and formatted the new drive (ext3). First surprise was that using UUID didn't work. Even though I cross checked the UUID several times, and confirmed that the entry was correct, I ended up having to use /dev/sdb5 in order to get the drive recognized.

I configured the extra storage as a share name utilities, using the dashboard. That worked fine and my friend has mounted the drive and copied a number of files to it. However, when I attempted to mount it from my laptop, it fails. I've tried from Vector Linux, Salix and Fedora, and every time it fails to mount the share. Strangely, if I run the new Vector SOHO version (KDE based), I can use Dolphin to mount the share without problems.

This would not be so odd, except that I have no trouble mounting any of the preconfigured shares that come with a standard Amahi install. The only one which fails is the one I've added. But it works for my friend (OpenSuse, using Konqueror) and it also works from a Windows XP login.

Anyone got any ideas as to what could cause this problem? And how to fix it?

I'll revisit another thread for the other problem I'm having with this installation....

Paul.

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Can you take a look at the low level permissions?

The automated methods make the group of the mounted share *users* which all the users belong to.

May want to try chgrp -R users /var/hda/files/utilities and reply back.