Hi all,

In the place where Im working we have just purchased a new Lacie 1tb ethernet harddrive . To mount it on the linux server(RHEL) we do it through samba, because it doesnt support nfs and we are experiencing permission problems.

Im mounting the drive like this:
//172.22.1.97/share /data3 smbfs uid=mfoper,gid=mf,auto,bg,username=bigdisk,password=bigdisk 0 0

Here mfoper is the linux user and bigdisk is the user with permissions to write in the drive.

/data3 is the folder where im mounting the drive, which looks like:
drwxr-xr-x 1 mfoper mf 4096 Feb 13 11:26 data3

I dont know why but not even root can change this. I tried chmod 777 /data3
and it doesnt complain, it just dont modify the permissions.


Everybody can read it but only the user who mounts it can write, and the worst of all is that when this user creates a file, this file gets root as the owner and users as group.

I have another problen and is that it doesnt allow to create files bigger than 2gb, could you confirm if this is a problem with samba?

any ideas??

What filesystem is the network drive formatted with? Most such drives come with FAT32, which has a 2GB file size limitation and doesn't support user permissions.

The filesystem is xfs. I didnt know much about this filesystem, actually is the first time I use it but checking it on its site, (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ )I found out it should support the normal permission system as it was used in some distros before...

After trying different things I also found out that a normal user can modify files but neither create nor delete, even files created by root.

Is also possible to copy bigger files than 2gb if I do it through ftp instead of samba.

would you recommend to format to ext3?

thanks for the response!

I can give more info:

I have mounted the disk using the usb port and it accepts perfectly permissions and any file size.

Any ideas to mount it like this with samba?

thanks guys.