Networked Folder Permissions

[William Hooper]

Jwp said:
> I can't seem to figure out how to mount a network directory to make it
> writeable by any user on the linux box.  I can mount the directory no
> problem, however only  ROOT has write access

You want to look at the uid and gid mount options.  If you want "everyone"
to be able to write check out the ?mask options.

mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=pword,uid=marco //Marco/test
/mnt/marco/

> (I can chown chmod I guess
> but
> I am sure you all know of a better way, thanks)

I bet you can't.

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William Hooper