I thought the mask was the inverse of what you wanted, or is that just umask for unix and not the mask in this case?
FYI...changeing the fmask and dmask settings to 0777 was successful. Thanks. so smbmount umask isn't the same format as unix umask.... George >-----Original Message----- >From: John Hester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:22 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [U2] smbmount problem... > > >George Gallen wrote: >> I'm trying to write to a PC share from Unix. >> >> I'm using smbmount to mount the PC share. >> no problem there. >> well sort of... >> >> Everytime the share mounts, the permissions of the >> are Owner = rwx >> Grp = r x >> Others = r x >> >> how can I get it to set the Grp rights to be rwx? >> OR how can I get it to allow more than one Owner? >> >> chmod/chgrp have NO EFFECT on the permissions >> I tried setting the mask to 000 in smbmount >> and that doesn't seem to do any different either. > >Try the smbmount dmask= and fmask= options, eg: dmask=0777 fmask=0666. >You can also use uid= and gid= options to set the user and group >ownership so you don't have to open up permissions for other. > >-John >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
