Write permissions on my NAS device

[curt8769]

Still pretty much a newby. I posted this a couple of times before without much luck, I thought I would try again. My problem is that I don't seem to have write permissions to my NAS device inside the Gnome GUI. For example, I cannot copy files from the local disk to the NAS using the GUI file explorer. I get a "not enough space" error when there is definitely free space available. Another example is, I can open a document from the NAS in say Open Office but when I try to save my changes it says something about a general input/output error while accessing /mnt/nas/bla bla bla.doc. My work around has been to save files to my local disk and copy them to the nas using the command line.

Any ideas? I know one of you brainy gurus has a few tricks up your sleeve. If I can get this one problem solved, all my computers and laptops in the house are getting this OS installed.

Ubuntu 7.10 with the Gnome desktop

[Freston]

I get a "not enough space" error when there is definitely free space available.

Grrr... I hate erroneous error messages.

I understand that non of the GUI applications let you write to the NAS. But they do allow you to read from the NAS.
I also understand that you can write to the NAS from the command line.


Let's look at basic permissions first. Can you post the output of these commands:

mount
cat /etc/fstab | grep -i nas
ls -l /mnt | grep -i nas
ls -l /mnt/nas

One of the things I can imagine to have gone wrong is that the default permissions on the drive are set to root.root. That's quite easy to fix. But what I think is strange is that you say the command line does let you copy files. You're not by any chance using sudo or su to copy the files, are you?

[curt8769]

Here is the output from the commands. I do not have to use sudo to copy files to the nas, I just tried again and i was able to copy a doc from local disk to nas from the command line. i was able to delete the file using the GUI. Then tried to copy the file again using the GUI and got "not enough space"


mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
//nas/home_nas on /mnt/nas type smbfs (rw)

cat /etc/fstab | grep -i nas
# //nas/home_nas
//nas/home_nas /mnt/nas smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/user,rw,uid=curt 0 0

ls -l /mnt | grep -i nas
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-05-29 17:52 nas

ls -l /mnt/nas
total 75
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-07-14 15:36 Backup
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-01-06 07:22 BearShare Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-06-04 13:15 BearShare Temp
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-09-25 08:22 Blue Print PDF files
dr-xr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-07-07 04:12 Dads Folder
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-04-28 11:15 Dads Music
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-04-21 11:20 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2005-11-04 03:20 Drivers
dr-xr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-01-12 17:39 Favorites
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-05-04 02:30 Music
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-03-15 12:40 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-01-06 10:36 playlists
-r-xr-xr-x 1 curt root 10752 2007-10-02 17:38 PREPOSAL james rowland2.wps
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2006-05-20 05:49 Recipies
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-01-06 08:36 Software
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2008-04-26 07:10 test
drwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 4096 2007-07-07 06:42 Videos

[curt8769]

Just a little more basic info you may want to know. This is consistent on 2 different laptops with the same OS and desktop. On a third laptop (actually the first one of the 3 to get Ubuntu) I chose the KDE desktop, and using the exact same mounting method, everything worked fine.

[curt8769]

bumping.....

[curt8769]

bump again. How many bumps is to many? I Don't want people to think I am spamming.