> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:48:06 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] help with cifs
> permissions, please> > Mac wrote:> snip>> > > I guess I'm right in> >
> thinking I should edit the line in /etc/fstab to> > > > //serverIP/public
> /media/nas cifs > >
> credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
> > > 0 0> > > > Sadly, this doesn't solve the problem: still when I make
> a test > > directory in Nautilus and drag it from /home to /media/nas I lose
> write > > permission for it - it appears with a lock symbol on it; and I get
> a > > permissions error when I try to delete it. I can, however, drag files
> > > to the directory and open them. The directory appears to have > >
> permissions rwx r-x r-x.> > > > I'm afraid my understanding of this is at
> the level of painting by > > numbers (i.e. cutting and pasting from HowTos
> with little conception of > > what's going on). So rational troubleshooting
> is a bit out of the > > question! I'll do some more searches. But if you -
> or anyone - have > > any more suggestions, I'd be grateful.> > > > Is
> it worth asking about this on Launchpad, or is that not the right place?> > >
> > Mac> > > > Just in case anyone's interested, my searches revealed that a
> lot of > people have trouble with getting permissions to work properly on
> cifs > shares. I tried various suggestions for fixes:> > unmount the share
> and chmod the mount point 777 (no joy)> create the credentials file with
> nano, to ensure the file ends with a > blank line (no joy)> use the 'noperm'
> options, thus:> //serverIP/public /media/nas cifs >
> credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,noperm 0 0> >
> Bingo! But what an awful solution, eh?! As it happens, I'm the only >
> person logging on to this machine, so maybe it doesn't matter. But how > do
> folk on shared systems deal with this? (There seem to be a lot of > cheesed
> off cifs users around, from what I've seen!)> > Anyway, if you've been
> reading this thread, thanks for your attention> > Mac> I saw a similar setup
> the other day but the fileMode and DirMOde hade no 0 at the start just
> 777.May help, may not! (1 , 99 % betting)Jay
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