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From: Storm Lake, IA

Registered: 2005-03-11

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CIFS Default permissions..

I am having a few problems with a cifs mount.  First off, I can't mount the share unless I am root..kind of annoying.  Secondly..whenever I create a new file on the cifs share, its permission default to read only.  How do I go about specifying the default permissions..  After looking around recently..I've come across the "file_mode" argument in fstab, but it fails to do anything :s  When I check the permisisons, they're still read only..

phrakture

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

hmmm in the "options" column of your fstab (or the options passed to mount), add "users" (or is it "user"?) to allow users to mount it... also "umask=644" will give read access by default....

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From: Storm Lake, IA

Registered: 2005-03-11

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

Yah, I have user in the fstab, but I still get an error..

mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

And with umask to 755, still presents read only permissions.  Hmm..  I've searched all over for answers and just ended up confused.  Here is my current fstab

//web1-04/cacemic$ /mnt/pweb cifs user,noauto,credentials=/etc/cifs/cifs.web,umask=755 0 0 

phrakture

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

try the "rw" flag? also try replacing "user" with "users"

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From: Storm Lake, IA

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

  Same thing.  Is there possibly a permissions issue with /sbin/mount.cifs?

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 18 2005-04-17 19:14 /sbin/mount.cifs -> /usr/bin/cifsmount

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 18572 2005-04-16 12:36 /usr/bin/cifsmount

b100dian

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

Altough 2 years later.. I had the same problem:)
I solved it by disabling CIFS Linux Extensions (cat 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensions..or something).

This was the only way for file_mode and dir_mode to work. Alas, if these Linux Extensions don't already do what you mean;)

wonder

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Re: CIFS Default permissions..

chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs
chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs
to solve the problem

my fstab
//192.168.0.3/D /mnt/pepi cifs username=Alexandru,password=1,noauto,users,uid=wonder,gid=users,file_mode=0644 0 0

Last edited by wonder (2007-08-11 20:11:05)

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