On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:55 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote:
Yesterday I purchased a 250 GB Buffalo NAS LinkStation. It works fine from my Ubuntu box, but from my wife's Mandriva box, I can't get it to be writable by a normal user, only by root. The SMB mount shows up as read only, even though I'm not specifying the read only parameter. The share is owned by root, with a group of root. The Buffalo gives me a limited selection as to what I can specify. It has a built in web server that allows the setup to occur. Here you can create shared folders, and specify if they are Read Only or Writable, and this folder is set to writable, and there are no access restrictions. I figure since my Ubuntu box is working correctly with it, it must be something I'm doing at the mount on the Mandriva box. Any thoughts on what I might have set wrong.
From `man smbmount`:
uid=<arg> sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid.
gid=<arg> sets the gid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid.
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fmask=<arg> sets the file mask. This determines the permissions that remote files have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the actual permissions for the files. The default is based on the cur‐ rent umask.
dmask=<arg> Sets the directory mask. This determines the permissions that remote directories have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the actual permissions for the directories. The default is based on the current umask.
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rw mount read-write