Mounting network drive under a user's home folder, possible?

XGhozt · 04-25-2011, 09:42 PM

This is the command I tried using:

Code:

mount -t cifs //NAS1/reports /home/user/public_html/reports -o rw,umask=0338,uid=587,gid=584,username=admin,password=password

It looks like the user can't access the files on the NAS drive. Is there any way to do this?

TobiSGD · 04-25-2011, 09:46 PM

Your umask is wrong. The umask is given in octal numbers, there can't be an 8 in it. This may be the culprit. Have you checked the UID and GID for correctness?
Which error messages do you get?

XGhozt · 04-25-2011, 09:51 PM

What should the umask be? I tried 0000, and there was no change. There isn't an error message, the drive is mounting correctly but the problem is that to the user it's just a regular empty folder. If I login as root and change to the mounted directory then I see the files from the network drive. Also, yes I'm sure the UID and GID are correct.

TobiSGD · 04-25-2011, 09:57 PM

The umask should be set opposite as you would set file permissions. If you want 755 as file permission the umask should be 022.
To your other problem: I have never seen such behavior, so I would try to play a little with the options, try it without the umask,GID and UID.

XGhozt · 04-25-2011, 10:21 PM

Is it even possible for a non-root user to access a mounted drive? It seems like that's the problem.
I've attached a screenshot (EDIT: REMOVED), hopefully this helps better illustrate the problem.

If I don't specify the uid and gid then everything is owned by root.

XGhozt · 04-25-2011, 10:24 PM

Actually, I think it IS working. If I login with FTP as the user then the files show up.
I suppose it just doesn't show that way from shell.

Very odd, thanks a lot TobiSGD!

TobiSGD · 04-25-2011, 10:29 PM

As stated before, I have never seen such a behavior. I myself mount my fileserver via cifs and are perfectly able to access it as normal user.