access denied while mounting through smbfs

gsr_kashyap · 10-13-2006, 06:12 AM

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??

peter_robb · 10-13-2006, 11:12 AM

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.

gsr_kashyap · 10-16-2006, 04:13 AM

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!!