I have successfully mounted a Windows share using cifs:

[root@localhost ~]# mount.cifs //192.168.1.103/bigmamaBU /mnt/bigmamaBU

-o username=me,password=mypswd,noperm,uid=dougb

dougb is my uid on the Red Hat linux server.

Then when I try to browse the directory I get the following message:

[root@localhost ~]# ls /mnt/bigmamaBU
ls: reading directory /mnt/bigmamaBU: Permission denied


When I look at directory permissions they appear to be OK:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /mnt
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 dougb root 0 Oct 20 14:19 bigmamaBU
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 15 2009 usbdrive


Why am I unable to browse the directory or copy a file to it?

I think you can add something like the following to your fstab (back it up first) and go from there. I was having some similar issues a while ago and I think it's something to do with permissions issues between linux and ntfs drives.

//192.168.1.103/bigmamaBU /mnt/bigmamaBU cifs iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0775,gid=1234 0 0


Here's my entry from fstab, just note I'm using the drives serial instead of network path (in your case)

UUID=DC145AE1145ABE68 /media/500GB ntfs-3g uid=500,gid=500,100,umask=000 0 0