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Samba Mounting Issues
I just finished installing Knoppix to my hard disk this afternoon, after running the CD for a few days and deciding I liked it. I'm in the midst of finalizing my setup, and I've run into a nasty snag: permissions when mounting a Windows share with Samba.
At first, I thought that following the steps nececssary to mount the Win98 partition on my drive would work: create a mount point, chown it so that appropriate users could access it (I'm going on the group-based method: root:windows owns the directory, and my knoppix user is part of that group), and then mount it up (using "mount -t smbfs -o gid=windows //SERVER/C /mntpoint").
However, I've run into a major snag going this: only root can write to that directory now. Interestingly enough, I'd tried "chmod 777 /mntpoint" before mounting, and then I see permissions go back to 755 (drwxr-xr-x); I've even had ownership revert to root:root on me. I must admit, that's extremely weird/unnerving.
How exactly should I be mounting up this networked Windows (XP, in this case) share to let folks besides root access it?
Oh, and while I'm at it, how the heck can I set this up in /etc/fstab so I don't have to do it manually every time I reboot?
Thanks,
Alex Kirk
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As far as your /etc/fstab I would expect something like:
//server/c /mountpoint smbfs defaults,user,gid=windows 0 0
(in your options you might want to try umask=002)
In my home LAN, I don't need to worry about security so I've set up a common password on all machines, windows and linux, so it's easy for me to either write to windows from linux or to linux from windows.
HTH
rock
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