How to map network drive ??

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, oedha at netscape.net wrote:

> //192.168.1.100/shared on /media/x type cifs (rw,mand)

this is good, it's mounted read-write.

> > ??? sudo touch /media/x/testfile
> 
> --- yes...it appears on x but .....ro mode :) :(

No, not ro mode.  It's mounted read-write.  Otherwise you wouldn't be able
to write to it.

> oedha at The-ELF:/media$ sudo mount -a
> WARNING: CIFS mount option 'fmask' is deprecated. Use 'file_mode' instead.
> WARNING: CIFS mount option 'dmask' is deprecated. Use 'dir_mode' instead.
> Password: 
> oedha at The-ELF:/media$ ls -l x

> -- and i changed to file_mode and dir_mode like below :
> //192.168.1.100/shared /media/x cifs rw,uid=root,gid=users,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0
> 
> and still the same = ro mode

Could we please have the output of the ls command so we can verify the
file_mode worked?

> -- i have read this man before.....and tried the options out......but still...like usual...ro mode
> i wonder : is it related to the size ? since this x is up to 100Gb and my
> HD is only 60GB ( since linux made everything as file ), i also tried to
> point to the smallest folder.......it's the same result = ro mode

No.  This is irrelevant.  Linux makes everything appear as a file, that
doesn't mean it stores everything on the disk.

Gavin