/etc/fstab Woes
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Feb 8 06:36:14 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:13 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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
Isn't that supposed to be umask=000
This is what I do on a CLI
mount -t cifs -o
username=xxx,password=yyy,uid=500 //server/share /mnt/pt
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