On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:25:38AM -0700, Steve deRosier wrote: > I've recently noticed that when I have a directory remotely mounted via > samba to my linux desktop, the mode bits of directories and files in it > don't necessarily resemble those of the actual files on the server. > Neither does a chmod seem to have any effect. > > I noticed that smbmount has a fmask and a dmask argument and these > arguments control what I view the mode as. Leaving out these arguments > just gets me a different mask. > > Question: How can I get my mounted directory to simply behave just like > any other directory? I just want to be able to view and modify the REAL > mode bits from my konsole.
Answer: don't use smbfs. You can't see or change the permissions on smbfs-mounted filesystems. If you need to be able to change permissions you should use some UNIX-native filesystem, like NFS. I think I've heard that the upcoming Linux replacement for smbfs (cifs) and the "unix extensions" in current versions of Samba will work much better for UNIX-UNIX mounts, but I haven't looked in to that. -- Michael Heironimus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba