mounting a windows share w/ rw permissions

GaijinPunch · 12-31-2003, 04:59 AM

I'm doing the standard 'mount -t smbfs //windowsmachine/share /mountpoint
and have been doing so for a while.

One thing I've never figured out though is how to make the share with write persmissions for someone other than root. Root is the only one that can mount, and once the share is mounted, it's set to 0755. It returns an error when trying to change the whole mount (or anything within the directory tree) to 0755.

Any suggestions?

kbcnetau · 01-01-2004, 05:52 PM

Have your read the manpage for Samba configuration?

man smb.conf

The configuration file, smb.conf, may be in /etc or /etc/samba

If you change it, you will need to restart Samba by doing something like:
/etc/init.d/smb restart

GaijinPunch · 01-04-2004, 06:18 AM

Yes, I've read it.

I've got
admin users = myuseraccount

set. I even restarted the machine (not just samba) so surely it picked up the changes. Yet, I try to write/create a file on the Samba share and still get access denied errors.

Any other suggestions?

sal_paradise42 · 01-04-2004, 07:58 AM

try ' smbmount //compname/share /mount/point -o fmask=777,dmask=777'

GaijinPunch · 01-04-2004, 08:54 AM

That's it!

Thanks man! Much appreciated.

w0000422 · 01-04-2004, 06:31 PM

sorry...what's fmask and dmask mean??

320mb · 01-04-2004, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by w0000422
sorry...what's fmask and dmask mean??

LOL, read: man samba

hypexr · 01-06-2004, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 320mb
LOL, read: man samba

Not so helpfull.

Its actually in man smbmount on my computer:

Code:

       fmask=<arg>
              sets the file mask. This determines the permissions that remote files have
              in the local filesystem.  The default is based on the current umask.

Code:

       dmask=<arg>
              sets  the  directory  mask.  This  determines  the permissions that remote
              directories have in the local filesystem.  The default  is  based  on  the
              current umask.

w0000422 · 01-06-2004, 07:04 PM

ya..."man smb" didn't mention abt fmask and dmask!