On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:37, Brad Felmey wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:39, Martha Jo McCarthy wrote:
>
> > It will not let me change the permissions to writeable to everyone
> > when it is mounted.
>
> No, you can't. You must do that at mount-time.
>
> > Here are the two lines in my fstab:
> >
> > //192.168.5.6/shared /mnt/serv/shared smbfs\
> > user,auto,rw,credentials=/home/techmjm/whatever 0 0
> >
> > //192.168.5.6/techmjm /mnt/serv/techmjm smbfs\
> > user,auto,rw,credentials=/home/techmjm/whatever 0 0
>
> In the options, add fmask=666,dmask=777, or whatever permissions you
> want the mount to have. fmask for files, dmask for directories.
>
> //192.168.5.6/techmjm /mnt/serv/techmjm smbfs \
> user,auto,fmask=666,dmask=777 0 0
>
> Or something similar.
On my LM 8.1 box "man fstab" points me to "man mount" for those options,
and there, around line 850, I find:
Mount options for ntfs
[snip]
uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. By
default, the files are owned by root and not read
able by somebody else.
That last sentence sounds relevant to this situation. I find no mention
of fmask or dmask.
Gary Dunn
Open Slate Project
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