Hai all,

As root, Mounted a windows dir using samba in my RHEL ES 4.0 box ..

like

mount -t smbfs -o username=dba //192.168.0.84/archive /mnt/archive

and password is given and successfully mounted..

problem is that only root user can write to this directory and not others and I tried changing the directory permission and even tried changing the ownership.. when an normal user is trying like :


[oratest@oracle ~]$ touch /mnt/archive/new1.txt
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/archive/new1.txt': Permission denied

How can I resolve this ?


Yusuf

Hi Yusuf is 192.168.0.84 your machine? You should check permisions on //192.168.0.84/archive.

Thanks Dino,

192.168.0.84 is my machine..

I've given complete full rw access to all the users.. but as root users I can able to rw on the mounted drive /mnt/archive.. but not as other users..


Any comments ?

Yusuf

If you want to allow the regular user to access the files add the following to your -o flag: "uid=<user>,gid=<group"

Thanks alkos,, but the following command failed :


mount -t smbfs -o flag:uid=oratest,gid=501 username=dba//192.168.0.84/archive /mnt/archive

Do I have to make any changes ?.. if so, where.. where can I add rw in this command..


Please clarify


Thanks
Yusuf

Also, post the errors you get - that helps to clarify things quite a bit.

Thanks Alkos,

it worked fine .


root@oracle oracle]# mount -t smbfs -o uid=oratest,gid=501,username=dba //192.168.0.84/archive /mnt/archive
params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring badly formed line in configuration file: set path
Password:

Thanks
Yusuf