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The first question to be asked is whether you are mounting using the cifs
driver or the smbfs driver, as each handle file ownerships and
permissions differently.
Issuing mount (no arguments) on the linux client will tell you whather it
is smbfs or cifs.
On 12/6/2007, "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>man smbmount
>
>He say:-
>
>smbmount {service} {mount-point} [-o options]
>
> dmask=3D<arg>
> Sets the directory mask. This determines the permissions
>that remote directories
> have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the
>actual permissions
> for the directories. The default is based on the current umask.
>
>and many other useful options.
>
>
>On 12/7/07, Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm having a problem with samba permissions from my linux machine.
>>
>> We have a file server running linux and sharing a disk under samba.
>> When I create a directory from a windows machine all works well, when
>> I look at the directory on the server I see:
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 2 kerry kerry 4096 2007-12-07 09:14 temp2
>>
>> But: I also have this directory mounted on my linux machine. When I
>> create a directory under linux and look at it on the server I see:
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 2007-12-07 09:14 temp
>>
>> What this means is that, if I create the directory under linux, I
>> can't then put anything in it!
>>
>> I'm not sure where to start on this one. Is this likely to be:
>>
>> 1. A samba setting on the server
>> 2. Something to do with mounting it on my workstation
>> 3. A general setting on my workstation
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> Kerry.
>>
>
>
>--
>Sincerely etc.
>Christopher Sawtell
>
