For a long time I've just put up with the inconvenience or of users not being able to write to mounted filesystems on windows hosts.
But sometimes is a real pain. I've never known for certain if linux users (non-root) can actually write to windows shares. I use what is probably an oldish setup in fstab like this: //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic cifs noauto,username=harry,credentials=/\ etc/samba/CifsCredentials Where the UNC above is on windows XP, and mounted as shows above. The credential in /etc/samba/CifsCredentials look like: user=reader user=harry user=root password=xxxxxxxx ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- What can I do so that when that share is mounted a user on the linux machine can write to it painlessly? Of course I can use sudo... but not always... here is an example of where it might be a pain. I get mail with pictures I want to save to the data base in the above ftab entry. I'd like to just strip it direct from the mail to that share but the mail is in a users account not root. Since my mail client is emacs-gnus... I can press a key combo that writes the file to whatever address, and could possible do this and even assume a root priviledges since emacs-gnus is seriously capable of all kinds of trick stuff. But it would just be easier to press the two key command to strip and save and give an address like /mnt/Imagesmusic/somedir And have that write just work without further guff. But since users don't get to write there... it fails. So back to what kind of cifs syntax will mount this share allowing users to write there?
