Re: [SLUG] lil' help with SMB

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 13:31:38 EST


adding uid=500 (thanks Ian) and changing the permissions on the /mnt/shared
stub (thanks Austin) fixed it. it's interesting watching the folder stubs'
permissions change right when I mount the SMB filesystem. why can't it just
leave it the same? guess it doesn't matter... it works :)

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:53 am, you wrote:
> 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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