Hi everyone,

I have tried posting in the Fedora section and on the Fedora Forums website but no success so I am trying this forum as well. This is the problem I'm having and I couldn't find a solution anywhere:

I have a Fedora Core4 (FC4) server sharing an array via SMB on a mixed network (Linux/Win/OsX), two of the computers on the network are Linux workstations. First workstation runs FC4 and is configured to mount the share via SMB with the proper username/password and credentials by using the following line:
"//share/share /mountpoint smbfs username=usr,password=pass,fmask=777,dmask=777,rw 0 0"

I initially had permission issues until I added the fmask and dmask options which solved it. So this share is working perfectly, I can copy to and from the share and work on it directly.

The problem is with the other workstation, which is running FC7. When I tried using similar approach to mount the shared array I was informed by the system that it does not support SMB anymore and I should use CIFS. I use the following line to load the same share via CIFS:

"//share/share /mountpoint cifs user=usr,pass=pass,rw,file_mode=777,dir_mode=777 0 0"

This mounts the share and I can browse it either by terminal or GUI file manager. However, when I try to copy files FROM the share TO the local machine I get "permission denied". Even if I log on as root on the local machine I get the same error. I made sure I copy it into a folder I have writing permissions on. When I list (ls) the mounted shared folder the owner
is the local non-privileged user with -rwxr-xr-x permissions. Even weirder, I can create new files on the shared array or copy files FROM the LOCAL machine TO the SHARED array, and those files that I created or copied I CAN copy back FROM the SHARED array TO the LOCAL machine! This works as either root or non-privileged user. It is just files which are on the shared array when I mount it that I can not copy to the local machine.

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

Thank you so much for your help!

Yoav Farkash