Can't write to network drive

[0007776]

I have an external HD connected to my iMac. I can mount the drive on my powerbook, but if I try to transfer or save any files to it it says that I do not have permission to save files there. Does anyone know how to fix this? If it helps the iMac is running 10.3.9 and the powerbook is running 10.4.10

 

[angelwatt]

Do a Get Info on the drive and check the permissions to see how they're set.

 

[edesignuk]

Is the drive formatted with NTFS? If so you'll be able to read but not write.

 

[twoodcc]

yeah it would help to know how the drive is formatted, and the permissions

 

[0007776]

Do a Get Info on the drive and check the permissions to see how they're set.

The permissions say I can only write when I do the get info from my powerbook. If I do the get info from my iMac it says I can read and write

Is the drive formatted with NTFS? If so you'll be able to read but not write.

The drive is formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled.

 

[pitt1717]

sounds like you created the share from the imac and now trying to access it from the powerbook and use a different user on each. anyway, from the imac, go into terminal and do a ls -al on the volume in question.
from there it will tell you who the owner and which group own the directories and thier permissions. for ease of use i tend to have the group set to users and add each user to the group. now remember do not do this on / itself as you can mess up a lot of stuff


chmod will change permissions
chgrp will change the group
chown will change the owner

man ch(whatever) for additional help.

 

[0007776]

sounds like you created the share from the imac and now trying to access it from the powerbook and use a different user on each. anyway, from the imac, go into terminal and do a ls -al on the volume in question.
from there it will tell you who the owner and which group own the directories and thier permissions. for ease of use i tend to have the group set to users and add each user to the group. now remember do not do this on / itself as you can mess up a lot of stuff

Thanks I think this fixed it for me.