[sclug] Summary - Samba and fstab

[Peter Brewer]

For the record I managed to get it to work with the following fstab line:

//hostname/data    /data     smbfs   
fmask=775,dmask=775,rw,uid=1000,gid=1002,credentials=/pathtocredfile/.smbpasswd     
0   0

This mounts the files as rwxrwxr_x so all I need to do is add all users 
who I want to give access to the share into the group 1002.

Thanks for the pointers

Pete


Graham Swallow wrote:

>>Message: 1
>>Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:39:33 +0000
>>From: Peter Brewer <p.w.brewer at reading.ac.uk>
>>Subject: [sclug] Samba and fstab
>>To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
>>Message-ID: <436F4B05.7070208 at rdg.ac.uk>
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>>
>>After thrashing away with sshfs and shfs for a few days I've finally 
>>decided that they are both flakey and slow so I've gone back to using 
>>smbfs.  I've set up my share and all works well from my client when I 
>>use Konqueror to browse e.g.:
>>
>>smb://user@server/share
>>
>>I can read and write to the share happily which is what I had intended.  
>>The problems start when I try and add this mount to my fstab.  Using any 
>>of the following lines:
>>
>>//hostname/data    /data   smbfs 
>>user,rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=500,gid=500,fmask=775,dmask=775,credentials=/home/aps03pwb/.smbpasswd     
>>0   0
>>//hostname/data    /data   smbfs 
>>defaults,credentials=/home/aps03pwb/.smbpasswd     0   0
>>//hostname/data    /data   smbfs defaults,username=foo,password=bar     
>>0   0
>>
>>They all mount the share successfully but none of them let me write to 
>>the folder.  The credentials  file contains the same user details as I 
>>was specifiying with the GUI in Konq.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Pete
>>    
>>
>
>	I think the fmask and dmask is a bit like umask - the negative of what you'd expect
>	What do the files and dirs look like with   ls -l
>	Can root uid=0 override local permissions? Ownership as expected?
>	Does "mount" show readonly?
>	There is probably an SMB monitor on the WIN32 box, it might show access errors 
>
>   regards
>--
>   Graham
>   gps @ Information-Cascade .co.uk
>   www . Information-Cascade .co.uk
>  
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