[ubuntu-uk] help with cifs permissions, please

[James Dalley]

> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:48:06 +0100> From: Ammonius.Grammaticus at googlemail.com> To: ubuntu-uk at 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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