[joanywhere]

Hiya all,
I have a Server and a desktop both running FC5.

The Server is running SAMBA (My windows notebook comes home and needs to play nicely sometimes ) and has a couple of shares set on it.

I have the following line in /etc/fstab on the FC5 Desktop

//192.168.1.3/data      /network/data           cifs  credentials=/jocred 0 0

which works just fine, but loads the share as read only.

if I make it look like this

//192.168.1.3/data      /network/data           cifs  rw, credentials=/jocred 0 0

I get the following error when I do a mount -a

[mntent]: line 8 in /etc/fstab is bad

I don't know quite where to go from here so any help will be appreciated.

Cheers
Jo

[Kingedgar]

I had to end up using uid=xxx like this

//192.168.0.15/music      /music                  cifs    credentials=/root/samba/credentials,uid=501,gid=501 0 0

This works for me across several linux versions.

[joanywhere]

King Edgar,
thanks for the idea.

I changed the line in my /etc/fstab to look like this

//192.168.1.3/data      /network/data           cifs    credentials=/jocred, uid=501, gid=501 0 0

and got exactly the same error message as before. The username and password specified in the credentials file is all a-ok

Next thoughts?

Cheers
Jo

[joanywhere]

OK, So I just learned something REALLYimportant!! No spaces in the comma delimited list of parameters in /etc/fstab.... (I'm sure it says it somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can see it)

So, my error has gone away, but I am still in readonly land on my CIFS share.

Next thoughts people?

Much respect
Jo

[aimstolemylife]

Kind of simple, but on the Windows box, have you selected "Allow users to edit files?" This laptop is the acting server, no?