Samba: smbfs works, cifs does not

[Devon Harding]

My shares mount fine, but I have no read access to the files.  Files are
listed like this:

-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  2.1M Apr 30  2002 winfile.zip



On 4/10/06, Joe Barnett <joe.barnett at mr72.com> wrote:
>
> Jörn Rink wrote:
> > Am Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:56:44 -0700
> > hat Joe Barnett <joe.barnett at mr72.com> (Joe Barnett) folgendes
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >> Server config: OpenBSD 3.8 using Samba 3.0.13p0 from ports
> >>
> >> Workstation(s): FC5 and FC4
> >>
> >> For public-type directories (permissions of 0755 or 0775, for
> >> example) I have all the browsing capability I would expect, though I
> >> am still unable to write to directories to which I would otherwise
> >> be able to write.
> >
> > Hi,
> > hm, here i have problems to mount my smb directories with fc5 as a
> > normal user with cifs. I get an error message, only root can mount here.
> > In the fstab line, there is a noauto,users option, but this do not work
> > with cifs. How do your users mount on FC 5? Or do you have the same
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks
> >  Jörn Rink
> >
>
> Hello Jörn,
>
> My Linux machines are mounting the SMB shares with a script
> containing "mount -t cifs ..." for each share.  The script runs at
> startup and fails gracefully (quickly) should the shares not be
> available.  I am sure there are much better ways of mounting the
> shares but this has worked since I started using Linux some seven
> years ago (though at that time the command was "mount -t smbfs ...")
> and I have just not gotten around to playing with other methods.  As
> such, there are no entries in my fstab for the SMB shares.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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