/etc/fstab Woes

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Nathaniel Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am having problems with getting permissions correct using my fstab.  I
> am mounting to a Windows file server from a Core 4 box.  I am able to
> connect to the share and mess with files, but permissions are not
> correct.  I do not run as a root user, so when I write a file it is
> owned by root.  I would like it to be owned by my username so that I do
> not have to change the owner when I want to edit the file.
> 
> Here is my /etc/fstab
> //server/share   /media/server/share   cifs  
> credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials/user.cred,rw,user 0 0
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
Try adding umask=0.

//server/share   /media/server/share   cifs
credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials/user.cred,rw,user,umask=0 0 0

Mikkel
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