Hi all,

I currently mount a folder (/mnt/windowspc) to my windows pc and all is working fine.

However, I am currently trying to lockdown the security on files and folders and have noticed that the mount folder (/mnt/windowspc) has rwxr-xr-x root:root set on it.

When I umount and then run chmod and chown to set it to rwxrwx--- root:mygroup so that root and anyone in mygroup can do what they want, the settings are ok.
However, when I then remount, the settings are reset back to rwxr-xr-x root:root.

Am I doing something wrong / could this be done a different way.

TIA,

Andy

What is the filesystem behind "windowspc"?

The word "windows" turns my attention to e.g. fat32, which of course does not give you the ability to change permissions. (At least to my limited understanding, as I do not use fat.)

Thanks for the reply. Have no fear, its NTFS. However its the windowspc folder under /mnt that has the chmod settings changed when mounting.

Just thought, the moethod I am using to mount is
mount -t smbfs username=........

Would it be better to use something in fstab. Doesn't this have additonal settings that could be applied, like usergroups, readwrite or something???

My above comment applies also (or especially) to NTFS.

Chmod and chown should have nothing to do with mounting.

But what is wrong with rwxr-xr-x root:root?

If I understood correctly, you wanted to change the write-settings - but if you are using NTFS you can not write anyhow, that is if you haven't enabled the (experimental) write-mode of NTFS in the kernel.

Generally I would prefer to have settings in the fstab but it is largely a matter of taste and practicalness. You might want to run 'man mount' and try for instance the options 'user' or 'users' to enable ordinary users to mount the file system.