Ok. I'm running Slackware 9 on a laptop. I haven't been able to find a way to get my pcmcia services to start before the file system is mounted. As a result, I'm not mounting my network shares in ftab; I'm mounting them in rc.local.

Here is my syntax to mount my network share in rc.local:

mount -t smbfs //hkd-server/data /mnt/data -o credentials=/root/.credentials/user-passwd,rw

If I log in as root, I have complete access to my mounted drives and can create/delete files. However, when I log in as a user, I get a lovely: "Can't write to ... Permission denied" error when I try to create/delete files on the network drive.

I have read hundreds of posts, tried most of the options in the man file but I can not seem to get a user read/write access. I have to be missing something here. Can somebody help me out before I just start using the root account? Thanks...

Success!

I changed my rc.local to use smbmount instead of mount. I was able to get the uid and gid to work with smbmount. I used the following syntax:

smbmount //hkd-server/data /mnt/data -o credentials=/root/.credentials/user-passwd,uid=hkdude,gid=users,dmask=774

-hkd

Congratulations, and thanks for posting the solution, too.
A fine example that you're setting! :)


Cheers,
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