Hello all,

Please can someone help me mount a windows share into my file system, and get the permissions right? I'm running FC6.

I have a NAS which only supports SMB file shareing.

So far, I've used

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.5/storage //mnt/Rookery/ -o username=guest,password="",file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

which works fine when I'm logged in as root. However, when I switch to my user account (Dave) I can browse the share and access the files, but any new files/directories I create are all read only.

What am I doing wrong? Eventually I want to edit fstab so that the machine mounts the share when it boots.

All help is appreciated.

Many thanks
ABA

Using umask=000 instead of the file_mode and dir_mode should do it.

Brian

Brian,
Thanks for the advice, but unfortunatly it didn't work ;(

I've tried using
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.5/storage //mnt/Rookery/ -o username=guest,password="",umask=000

This workd#s fine when I'm logged in as root, but my user account can only create read-only files.

Is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks
ABA

SOLVED (but I don't know why!)

I googled this up on fedoraforums.org and copied it to fstab, then issued mount -a and everything works OK.

//192.168.1.5/storage /mnt/Rookery cifs auto,user,username=guest,password="",uid=500,gid=500,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,rw 0 0

If someone has the time, please can someone explain what this means?

Thanks
ABA