----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Dacre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] php mkdir on remote filesystem


> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:36, Amanda Wynne wrote:
> > I have an SME server with an ibay with lots of php.
> > Under /files in this ibay I have mounted a drive on a Windows 2000
server.
> > Php can read files off this remote drive, but I can't mkdir or write to
it.
> > My mount command, (which I run from a script), as options, gives a valid
username & password on the remote system.
> > I did a chown to the mount point /files/jobs, to that valid user name,
which is also a valid username on the SME server. But after mounting the
remote filesystem, the owner & group reverts to root.
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Amanda
> > ----
> >
>
> Amanda,
>
> I am assuming you are using "mount -t smbfs"/smbmount.
>
> Other options I specify are uid=<some valid user name on linux box>,
> gid=<valid group on linux box>,rw (rw=read/write, default is ro=read
> only).
>
> In my case I use:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o credentials=<credentials file>,uid=<user
> name>,gid=<group name>,rw //<windows server name>/<share name> /<mount
> point>
>
> Brendan
>

Thanks Brendan, got it working now.
setting uid=  & gid= did the trick.
Also realised I hadn't restarted httpd properly after changing httpd.conf.

Amanda

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