How do I set permissions on a samba connection?

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2013 19:22:49 Bob did opine:
>>
>> I have an existing system which contains a LAN connected disk drive. I
>> have added a new computer on which I installed Ubuntu (this is my first
>> linux experience). From the Ubuntu computer I can read the files on
>> the samba connected drive but I can not write to those files. I have
>> tried to change the permissions but can not locate where the drive is
>> mounted. So my question is how do I change the permissions?
>
> Samba/CIFS, is IMO the wrong tool. For starters its intended to talk to
> winders machines, and the last time I checked, was still unable to work
> with the perms diffs between windows and any *nix.
>
> You want nfs, but you'll need to do some configuring. Its all in the man
> pages AFAIK.

Your opinion goes against that of the GNOME developers who've been
using Samba as the default tool to share out files and directories in
v2 and v3. (Even OS X will be defaulting to Samba in v10.9! SO it must
be pretty easy to use...)