On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:37, Brad Felmey wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:39, Martha Jo McCarthy wrote:
>
> > It will not let me change the permissions to writeable to everyone
> > when it is mounted.
>
> No, you can't. You must do that at mount-time.
>
> > Here are the two lines in my fstab:
> >
> > //192.168.5.6/shared /mnt/serv/shared smbfs\
> > user,auto,rw,credentials=/home/techmjm/whatever 0 0
> >
> > //192.168.5.6/techmjm /mnt/serv/techmjm smbfs\
> > user,auto,rw,credentials=/home/techmjm/whatever 0 0
>
> In the options, add fmask=666,dmask=777, or whatever permissions you
> want the mount to have. fmask for files, dmask for directories.
>
> //192.168.5.6/techmjm /mnt/serv/techmjm smbfs \
> user,auto,fmask=666,dmask=777 0 0
>
> Or something similar.
On my LM 8.1 box "man fstab" points me to "man mount" for those options,
and there, around line 850, I find:
Mount options for ntfs
[snip]
uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. By
default, the files are owned by root and not read�
able by somebody else.
That last sentence sounds relevant to this situation. I find no mention
of fmask or dmask.
Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project
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