SMB Setup
Jim Herrmann
kclug at itdepends.com
Tue Nov 21 23:07:53 CST 2006
uid did the trick. Thanks!
Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:55 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I purchased a 250 GB Buffalo NAS LinkStation. It works fine
>> from my Ubuntu box, but from my wife's Mandriva box, I can't get it to
>> be writable by a normal user, only by root. The SMB mount shows up as
>> read only, even though I'm not specifying the read only parameter. The
>> share is owned by root, with a group of root. The Buffalo gives me a
>> limited selection as to what I can specify. It has a built in web
>> server that allows the setup to occur. Here you can create shared
>> folders, and specify if they are Read Only or Writable, and this folder
>> is set to writable, and there are no access restrictions. I figure
>> since my Ubuntu box is working correctly with it, it must be something
>> I'm doing at the mount on the Mandriva box. Any thoughts on what I
>> might have set wrong.
>>
>
> From `man smbmount`:
>
> uid=<arg>
> sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It
> may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid.
>
> gid=<arg>
> sets the gid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It
> may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid.
>
> ...
>
> fmask=<arg>
> sets the file mask. This determines the permissions that remote
> files have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the
> actual permissions for the files. The default is based on the cur‐
> rent umask.
>
> dmask=<arg>
> Sets the directory mask. This determines the permissions that remote
> directories have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but
> the actual permissions for the directories. The default is based on
> the current umask.
>
> ...
>
> rw mount read-write
>
>
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