Problems mounting smbfs/ntfs in /etc/fstab to give read-write permissions

Hi All,

I have the following line in my /etc/fstab to mount an NTFS drive:

//HONS/RobertMarkBram /phdWeb smbfs
rw,username=rob,password=XXXXXX,uid=gid=500 0 0

I have that id, but I still do not have write permissions:

robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
$id
uid=500(robertmarkbram) gid=500(robertmarkbram)
groups=500(robertmarkbram),0(root)

robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
$touch temp
touch: creating `temp': Permission denied

robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
$ls -lad .
drwxr-xr-x 1 65535 root 4096 Sep 3 17:19 .

Can anyone tell me what is going wrong?

Any advice would be most appreciated!

Rob

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> Hi All,
>
> I have the following line in my /etc/fstab to mount an NTFS drive:
>
> //HONS/RobertMarkBram /phdWeb smbfs
> rw,username=rob,password=XXXXXX,uid=gid=500 0 0
>
> I have that id, but I still do not have write permissions:
>
> robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
> $id
> uid=500(robertmarkbram) gid=500(robertmarkbram)
> groups=500(robertmarkbram),0(root)
>
> robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
> $touch temp
> touch: creating `temp': Permission denied
>
> robertmarkbram - /phdWeb
> $ls -lad .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 65535 root 4096 Sep 3 17:19 .
>
> Can anyone tell me what is going wrong?
>
From the permission set, "root" as group has only read access. Instead, the
share is mounted as "nobody" or a user that doesn't exist on your system.
The syntax "uid=gid" isn't mentioned as legal in the mount documentation and
might therefore be ignored?
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Hi Walter,

> > //HONS/RobertMarkBram /phdWeb smbfs
> > rw,username=rob,password=XXXXXX,uid=gid=500 0 0

> From the permission set, "root" as group has only read access. Instead, the
> share is mounted as "nobody" or a user that doesn't exist on your system.
> The syntax "uid=gid" isn't mentioned as legal in the mount documentation and
> might therefore be ignored?

That did the trick! I changed that part to "uid=500,gid=500" and it works fine.

Thank you very much!

Rob