[indiana-discuss] Two questions before I install OpenSolaris for "real"

Bryan Boone Bryan.Boone at sas.com
Thu May 15 11:30:04 PDT 2008


Will do...
Thanks.
-Bryan

Robert Thurlow wrote:
> Bryan Boone wrote:
>>> I mount the samba/cifs share, in this case a linux share from
>>> OpenSolaris using:
>>>
>>> mount -f smbfs //[user at server/share /mnt/server/share
>>> where I have read-write access to the /mnt/server/share directory
>>> I get prompted for my share password and it mounts.
>>> Unfortunately, it's mounted read-only, and the files are owned by root.
>>>   What gives?  Is there another option I need to use?
> 
> The ownership and permissions are fictional on an smbfs mount,
> since we don't have ACL support in just yet.  If you change the
> ownership of the underlying directory you mounted on to be
> more open and owned by yourself, you'll probably get what you
> want; there are also mount options to set ownership and mode bits
> for the mount.  Give that a try and give us a yell if it doesn't work!
> 
> Rob T



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