[SOLVED] mounting windows share is assigned to root

daisychick · 03-27-2012, 05:02 PM

so, I'm trying to mount a windows share on ubuntu 10.04 and only those with sudo access can write to it. I'd like for everyone to be able to write to it. I used this to mount it.

Code:

sudo mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user

What did I do wrong?

TobiSGD · 03-27-2012, 05:04 PM

Add

Code:

mode=1777

to your mount options, that should do the job.

daisychick · 03-28-2012, 12:13 AM

Super! thanks! Would I do the same thing in fstab if I wanted it to be permanent?

TobiSGD · 03-28-2012, 06:25 AM

Yes. Keep in mind that this will allow every user on that machine to do everything on that share. If you want to restrict access to a particular user also have a look at the uid and gid options.

daisychick · 03-28-2012, 02:18 PM

that's exactly what I wanted. There are only 6 people using this machine and they all need to be able to r/w to the share. I will be looking into the GID/UID options for a different share though.

THANK YOU!

daisychick · 03-28-2012, 02:20 PM

would it look like this?

Code:

sudo mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user,mode=1777

TobiSGD · 03-29-2012, 07:14 PM

Exactly.

daisychick · 04-09-2012, 03:59 PM

Alas, that did not work. ls still shows it's owned by root and requires root privileges to write to them. Suggestions?

TobiSGD · 04-09-2012, 04:06 PM

Have you tried the uid and gid options? By the way, i don't know if that is really different, but instead of -t smbfs I use -t cifs to mount Samba shares.

daisychick · 04-11-2012, 02:40 PM

so, I've tried these two and no difference. I created a group called "windows" and used the GID from that. Still won't let you write to the drive unless you're root.

Code:

sudo mount -t cifs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user,dir_mode=0775,gid=1009

sudo mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user,dir_mode=0775,gid=1009

I also tried

Code:

mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user,dir_mode=0777,gid=1009

with the first two ls shows

Code:

drwxrwxr-x   1 root  windows  80K 2012-04-11 14:49 xdrive

with the mode 777 it shows

Code:

drwxrwxrwx   1 root  windows  80K 2012-04-11 14:51 xdrive

It looks like it's mounting right but why can't I write to it without root permissions?

lleb · 04-11-2012, 03:40 PM

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-m...windows-share/

hope that helps.

daisychick · 04-11-2012, 04:49 PM

ty but I've seen that page and it wasn't any help.

daisychick · 04-11-2012, 04:55 PM

SOLVED! noperm, mode, and GID did the trick. replace xxxx with the GID of the group you want it to belong to.
fstab

Code:

//WINSERVER3/Runs   /runs 	smbfs   iocharset=utf8,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dir_mode=0775,gid=xxxx,noperm       0       0

CLI (use sudo for debian/ubuntu)

Code:

sudo mount -t smbfs //WINSERVER3/Runs /runs -o pass=abcdefg,user=user,dir_mode=0775,gid=xxxx,noperm