Re: Problem Mounting Windows Share R/W

In article <bjhvnp028jr@enews2.newsguy.com>, Michael Powe
<michael+gnus@trollope.org> writes
>
>mount -w -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass,uid=powem,gid=users
>//share mountpoint
>
>it will mount ... but it changes the directory permissions of
>mountpoint to readonly. then, when i umount, the perms are changed
>back to r/w.

I don't know whether this has changed since your old installation, but
the current version of smbmount defaults to read-only, and needs the
'rw' option added.
--
Rob Pearce

The "from" must be wrong, nothing that helpful ever comes from the TAN team!

tack on a ",dmask=777" to your -o and that will help :-)

Rick


"Robert Pearce" <tan-support@bdt-home.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <bjhvnp028jr@enews2.newsguy.com>, Michael Powe
> <michael+gnus@trollope.org> writes
> >
> >mount -w -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass,uid=powem,gid=users
> >//share mountpoint
> >
> >it will mount ... but it changes the directory permissions of
> >mountpoint to readonly. then, when i umount, the perms are changed
> >back to r/w.
>
> I don't know whether this has changed since your old installation, but
> the current version of smbmount defaults to read-only, and needs the
> 'rw' option added.
> --
> Rob Pearce
>
> The "from" must be wrong, nothing that helpful ever comes from the TAN
team!
>