mounting windows shares r/w -- still not working

hello,

following some advice, i tried and failed with the following attempts:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=.smb_auth_pdx,dmask=777,rw
//pdxpowem03/NetIQ pdxpowem03

sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=.smb_auth_pdx,dmask=0770,fmask=0770,rw
//pdxpowem03/NetIQ pdxpowem03

and various combinations of these parameters. i also tried putting it
into fstab, viz.

//pdxpowem03/NetIQ /home/powem/pdxpowem03 smbfs
dmask=777,rw,users,noauto,credentials=/home/powem/.smb_auth_pdx

every attempt results in a directory that is owned by root and
read-only. this really ticks me off. how can it be this freaking
difficult to mount a share so that it can be USED?? am i expected
to work as ROOT in order to use a samba share??

this makes samba basically useless to me as a mechanism for sharing
files. the point of accessing these files remotely is to be able to
actually WORK with them.

thanks for any help in sorting this.

mp

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Michael Powe wrote:
> following some advice, i tried and failed with the following attempts:

Have you had a look at "man mount" yet? How well do you understand Unix
permissions overall? You might want to read up on that as well (look for
tutorials on the Web, and "man chmod".)

> sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=.smb_auth_pdx,dmask=0770,fmask=0770,rw
> //pdxpowem03/NetIQ pdxpowem03

This one would work with appropriate GID (and/or UID) option given. I
use these options with smbfs mounts:
fmask=664,dmask=775,gid=100
where group 100 (users) is a common group with all the users who should
have access to the share. If only one user is accessing it, try this:
fmask=640,dmask=750,uid=1000,gid=1000
UID 1000 is the only user with read-write permission. GID 1000 (in many
distros, users are put in exclusive primary groups where $GID == $UID)
has read-only access, and all others are excluded.
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>>>>> "/dev/rob0" == /dev/rob0 <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

/dev/rob0> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Michael
/dev/rob0> Powe wrote:
>> following some advice, i tried and failed with the following
>> attempts:

/dev/rob0> Have you had a look at "man mount" yet? How well do you
/dev/rob0> understand Unix permissions overall? You might want to
/dev/rob0> read up on that as well (look for tutorials on the Web,
/dev/rob0> and "man chmod".)

yes, dear, i practically memorized it; and i'm fully conversant with
'chmod', including the fact that a user can't chmod a directory owned
by root. but that doesn't matter because it still wouldn't work even
if i su'ed to root and tried it.

thanks anyway, but for whatever reason, i was able to get smbmount to
do it. i'll just chalk it up to experience & hope i don't experience
it again.

i appreciate the answers, thanks to all.

mp

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