Re: [Sheflug] Trouble with permissions

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:04 26/07/02 +0100, David Holden wrote:

>Not sure I understand but I take it you have looked at sambas "create 
>mask" and "force create modes" options.

Although the underlying OS of the RAID box is FreeBSD, I believe, you can't 
get at the smb.conf file. All you get is a web interface that lets you 
create users/groups/permissions etc and these are already set up and working.

My problem is that although the remote user can connect and read all the 
various files, everything appears owned as user 'root' and the samba user 
doesn't have any write privileges. This isn't the case when connecting from 
a Windoze box so I'm assuming it's a problem with permissions on the 
connecting linux box.

I'm mounting the SAMBA share with the line;
mount -t smbfs -o username=<user>,password=<password> //server/Public /Public
(this is in a startup script so I guess is running as root)

and I have the following line in /etc/fstab (don't know if it's of any 
relevance)

//server/Public /Public smbfs noauto,user,rw 0 0

I suppose that although I think I am, I'm not actually mounting the share 
with the correct permissions.


Steve


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