Re: [SLUG] lil' help with SMB

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 11:53:17 EST


On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Eric Jahn wrote:

> I can read but not write to my work's shared files with this line in my
> fstab:
>
> //Uwsrq1/SHARED /mnt/shared smbfs
> username=something,password=something,rw,user 0 0

smbmount has the option of putting 'credentials=/path/to/file' in place of
'username=' and 'password=' options. Maybe mount does too...

> The command line smbclient command can successfully write/read to the
> network shared directory, so I know it's not a permissions thing. Any
> ideas on how can I modify my fstab to make this work?

Mmm, maybe 'uid=<your uid>'? What are the permission and ownership of
the files in the mounted directory?

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