Samba share issue

[Waymo]

Hi.
im using the following command to map (1) a network drive (2) a folder on a shared pc

mount -t smbfs -o username=myname //server/share$ /mnt/Brennand$
mount -t smbfs -o username=myname //computer/share /mnt/DDS


this works fine, but i cannot add or delete items from these shares, i get an error msg that "access is denied"

Has any one any idea on how i can change this so i have full control of these share??

Any Help appreaciated...


Damien

[WhatisLinux]

??? What are your folder permissions? Start from the basic stuff up and let us know what the deal is.

[antidrugue]

mount -t smbfs -o username=myname //server/share$ /mnt/Brennand$
mount -t smbfs -o username=myname //computer/share /mnt/DDS


this works fine, but i cannot add or delete items from these shares, i get an error msg that "access is denied"

Did you try the cifs protocol instead?

Something like

mount -t cifs -o username=myname //server/share$ /mnt/Brennand$

That did for me. I had the same issues as yours with smbfs

[Waymo]

Thanks antidrugue,
this worked perfectly, you dont know how long i have been looking for this info
what does the ci in ci file sytem stand for ? i havnt seen it before, i thought it was just samba that mounted shares in linux......thanks again!

Damien

[antidrugue]

No problemo. It's a good idea to cifs anyway, as the smbfs is now officially unmaintained in the Linux kernel:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-b.../msg00649.html

You can get all the info with:

man mount.cifs

CIFS stands for Common Internet File System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs

The cifs still depends on the smbfs package to work. (Which of course you have installed, otherwise it wouldn't work.)

[Waymo]

thats perfect. seems to be a lot quicker to map then samba too.

Damien