mounts

[Mystic_Slayer]

I've made a couple of mounts from a other machine
Xandros Desktop OS V2.0 Deluxe to my Firewall (Trustix Secure Linux).

It works perfectly, but when I'm a normal user I can't write something to my Xandros machine. Permission Denied.

Everyone has write permissions, read permissions. Even with a WinXp client I can write to these partitions.

But I when I mount these networkshares I only can write with Root permissions. I don't want that.

I've made the mountings on this way

mount -o username=akr,password=dumb //192.168.0.1/SHARED /mnt/network/SHARED

It works perfect with root permissions, but not with user permissions. How to change that?

[Dolda2000]

One way is to adjust the permissions on that mount using the uid, gid, fmask or dmask mount options. See the smbmount manpage for more info.

Another way is to share them to the Linux machine using NFS instead. In my mind, that's preferable.

[Mystic_Slayer]

I've used this in my fstab.

//192.168.0.1/APPS /mnt/network/APPS smbfs defaults,umask=0777,gid=100 0 0

But still no write permission. Also here an piece of my smb.conf from my machine where the shares are.

[SHARED]
public=yes
browseable=yes
path=/disks/C
writable=yes
write list=akr,root,@users
max connections=0
available=yes
valid users=akr,nobody,root,@users

[Dolda2000]

Indeed - umask=0777 will remove all permissions for everyone. The umask is the inverted permission bits, so umask=0000 is probably more likely what you want if you want everyone to have full access.

[Mystic_Slayer]

I even tried 0000, but still no permissions to write.

I even used with my shares:

create mask = 0775
create directory = 0775

Even this won't work. Only my Windows machines can use these shares. If you think you've got everything. I always had some problems for Windows Machines, but these machines will work. Now my 3 other Linux machines won't work with these shares. How strange. All the machines got the same problem?

[Dolda2000]

Now when I think about it, I don't think that smbmount uses the umask option. I think it uses fmask and dmask instead. Try passing "fmask=0000,dmask=0000" and see if that helps.

What is in smb.conf should not matter for this issue. It only affects the server.

[Mystic_Slayer]

I've used this rite now and it works perfectly:

mount //192.168.0.1/APPS /mnt/network/APPS -o uid=root,rw,dmask=0777,fmask=0777

Thnx for it Dolda