Hello,

I know there are lots of posts about mounting windows shares, I've read lots of them and tried their suggestions.....but I just can't get this working - and it's driving me nuts!

I have the following in my fstab file
//rookery/storage /mnt/rookery smbfs auto,users 0 0

The folder /mnt/rookery is set up so that everyone can view and modify content.

When I'm logged in as root, it works perfectly. However when I'm logged in as me (member of the user group) it doesn't work. KDE just sits there grinding its gears. However, the daft thing is, if I type
smb://rookery/Storage
into the file browser, it works fine.

I've changing the fstab entries to //192.168.1.5/storage, I've tried userS and user, I've tried auto and noauto, NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK.

I've set SMBMNT and SMBMOUNT to be SUID, and it still doesn't work.

I have Samba set up and working OK, I can connect to the Slack box from WinXP, browse files and also write files, so I don't think there are any problems there.

I know it's a bit strange wanting to mount a windows share on a linux box, but my network storage device (a TeraStation) shows up as a Windows Shared drive and so I need to mount it as a folder on my linux box to be able to access it.

If anyone has any suggestions......please help.

many thanks
AByteApart

Try replacing users with user in the fstab, it should work then.

albhaf,
Thanks for the post. Unfortunatly i've already tried that, and it didn't work. ;(

In that case, does the share need any username and password?

albhaf,
No, the share can be accessed as a guest. If I type
smb://rookery/Storage
into the file browser, it works fine without a username and password.

Also, the entry in the fstab file works when I'm logged in as root, but not as me (user account)

Do you get any error message when mounting in the console or are you trying to mount it with Konqueror?

Give this a shot:

mount -t smbfs -o username=Guest //rookery/storage /mnt/rookery

Albhaf,
I try and mount using the consol, and logged in as a user, I get an error saying "only root can mount" (or somthing like that).

If I using Konquer (and logged in as a user) I get no errors at all, it just shows an empty folder.

Dohpaz,
If I try to mount shares at the console (when logged in as a user) I just get an error saying "only root can mount".

This is really puzzling me.

Abyteapart

you need to make smbmnt and smbumount SUID (-rwsr-xr-x) and make sure that you have write permission to the folder your are mounting it on.

so after that you should be using smbmnt to mount and smbumount to unmount.

same problem here:
only root can mount and write new files to my samba share.

Hay everyone.....

I've changed the fstab file entry to
//rookery/storage /mnt/rookery smbfs username=guest,password="" 0 0

and that mounts the share automatically at boot up. Its even mounted when I log in using my user account......YAY

BUT........as user, I can't write to the network drive.

As root, I set the mount mount /mnt/rookery so that owner, group & others all have view and modify access rights. However, when I log in as user the access rights are changed so that only owner as view and modify rights, group and other can view the files.

The plot thickens....it looks like the access rights for the mount point /mnt/rookery are changing depending who is logged in. If you're root then everything is ok, if you're a user then you're stuffed!

Is it the default behaviour not to allow users to write to SMB network shares?

Abyteapart

This is in right direction
//rookery/storage /mnt/rookery smbfs username=guest,password="" 0 0

add user
//rookery/storage /mnt/rookery smbfs user,username=guest,password="" 0 0

Also, before mount, check with ls -l /mnt the permission on the folders.

Ludist,

Thank you for your help. I'll try out your suggestion as soon as I can. I'm away from my Slack Box at the moment and won't be able to try for a another week. ;(

Abyteapart

Hello all,

I've tried changing my fstab file to include user and still no luck. I've tried users as well and that doesnt work either.

I get the impression there is somthing more fundamentally wrong than the entry in the fstab file. I think the problem is with the persissions on the mount point /mnt/rookery.

I set up access so that everyone can read and write to the folder, but when I change from root to a user account the persissions have been changed.

Does anyone know why the permissions on a mount point change depending on who's logged on?

Thanks
Abyteapart

Just found some more interesting information.

Logged in as root:
mount point /mnt/rookery has permissions of drwxr-xr-x
I unmount the mount point and change the permissions to drwxrwxrwx
I then remount the mount point and after a few seconds the permissions change to drwxr-xr-x

What's going on? What can be changing the permissions of the mount point?

Thanks
Abyteapart