Re: [Sheflug] mount problem

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Darrell Blake uttered these words of wisdom:
> I've got a bit of a problem when mounting devices. For some reason if they are 
> mouted by root I can't read them as a user. I noticed that my windows drive 
> in my fstab was mounted but I couldn't read it. It looked like this...
	.
	.
	.
> I know that I shouldn't really be able to mount devices as user but if I mount 
> them as root I can't read them. It's quite important that I can read them 
> because I have a small samba network and everyone needs to be able to read 
> the windows drive. I tried unmounting the device as root and then mounting it


Look at the options "uid", "gid", "fmask" and "dmask". Reading the manpage 
for smbmount, saying uid=0,gid=0,fmask=644,dmask=755 in your options might
do the job[1] (if I'm reading the man page correctly). Consult the manpages 
for more details :)

Chris...

[1] All files will have ownership root:root, files have permissions 644, 
directories 755.

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