Help,

I have a mounting question.

I am using Mandrake 10 linux.
I have mounted a windows hard drive computer using Samba.
this has added this line in my /etc/fstab:

//abraham/Joseph /home/gary/Documents/Joseph smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.abraham.gary 0 0

Then I use samba to mount or just reboot. This gives me a directory called Joseph in my Documents directory. I can read the files. The problem is the ower is root with permissions that look like this:

-rwxr--r--  1 root root     2685 Nov 21 22:53 Burgess.htm*

When I try to use the chmod command on the Joseph directory, nothing is changed. The owner is still root. Here is the command I used:

chmod o=rwx Burgess.htm
chmod 777 Burgess.htm

Apparently one cannot change rights on a mounted shared file from a windows box. ???

My question is how do I link as a regular user? or
How do I change rights to files on a mounted directory? or
How can I read and write to this directory?

Thank you,
Gary Hutton
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