Hi Tim,

> I had been mounting it at boot time via a line in the fstab using
> cifs, here the line I have at present but it won't mount at boot up
> 
>     //192.168.0.57/openshare/data /media/share cifs 
> defaults,uid=mit,gid=users 0 0
> 
> So I normally have to mount it via the cli as root with
> 
>     mount //192.168.0.57/openshare/data /media/share
> 
> But this only gives me write access

As an aside, those fstab options can be passed to mount(8), e.g.

    sudo mount -o uid=mit,gid=users //192.168.0.57/openshare/data /media/share

Cheers, Ralph.

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