SMB Setup

[Jim Herrmann]

uid did the trick.  Thanks!

Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:55 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote:
>   
>> Yesterday I purchased a 250 GB Buffalo NAS LinkStation.  It works fine 
>> from my Ubuntu box, but from my wife's Mandriva box, I can't get it to 
>> be writable by a normal user, only by root.  The SMB mount shows up as 
>> read only, even though I'm not specifying the read only parameter.  The 
>> share is owned by root, with a group of root.  The Buffalo gives me a 
>> limited selection as to what I can specify.  It has a built in web 
>> server that allows the setup to occur.  Here you can create shared 
>> folders, and specify if they are Read Only or Writable, and this folder 
>> is set to writable, and there are no access restrictions.  I figure 
>> since my Ubuntu box is working correctly with it, it must be something 
>> I'm doing at the mount on the Mandriva box.  Any thoughts on what I 
>> might have set wrong.
>>     
>
> From `man smbmount`:
>
>        uid=<arg>
>           sets  the  uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It
>           may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid.
>
>        gid=<arg>
>           sets the gid that will own all files on the mounted  filesystem.  It
>           may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid.
>
> ...
>
>        fmask=<arg>
>           sets the file mask. This  determines  the  permissions  that  remote
>           files  have  in  the  local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the
>           actual permissions for the files. The default is based on  the  cur‐
>           rent umask.
>
>        dmask=<arg>
>           Sets the directory mask. This determines the permissions that remote
>           directories have in the local filesystem. This is not a  umask,  but
>           the  actual permissions for the directories. The default is based on
>           the current umask.
>
> ...
>
> 	rw mount read-write
>
>