access denied while mounting through smbfs
 

hi everyone,
i tried to mount a windowsxp machine on my linux machine, one machine worked fine(i could access) but when i try to mount another system i get access deined though the passwd is correct.
i get this out put if i execute: ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 13 18:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Oct 14 15:25 ..
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? test
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 18:50 test1

and when i type ls ./test it gives permission denied

wht could the problem??

The directories aren't owned by the user or the group smbfs is using..

It is recommended that the directories are mode 770 and owned by at least a common group for all users, if there is no need to keep any of them protected.

hi peter, actually i am trying to mount a windows partition on my linux machine and after mounting to my local machine(linux) when i try to change the permissions it gives permission denied error. for another machine(windows) i am able to succesfully mount the windows machine and can view the folders!!