Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Mon 14 May 2007 16:30:57 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:

mount -t smbfs -o
username=robert,password=***** //server/public /home/robert/server/public
or by having a line in fstab.
many people prefer -t cifs

... because it is the only thing which works these days... (and has been for
some time).

However, just recently, I had a few problems with permissions on a CIFS connection. When I changed to smbfs it all worked. The ownership of the share refused to change to something other than the UID of the owner of the directory on the directory on the server.




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