Re: smbmount w2k3 no write access

[Wim De Smet <kromagg@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:59:17 -0400, Jody Grafals
<list-keeper@techquest.cc> wrote:
> 
> 
> Still not getting anywhere, the options gid uid umask seem to have no
> effect with smbmount and due to the way need to access w2k3 shares. I
> have only been able to mount the drive using the command smbmount. I
> have not been able to get fstab or `mont -t smbfs` to pass the proper
> authentication to the w2k3 server.  I DO have write access as root.
> using the command
> #`smbmount //downtown/sysback /mnt/smb/downtown/ -o
> username=username/servername%'!password'`
> But I'm trying to get a regular user R/W access to a file on the W2k3
> server. I have Quickbooks 2004 running under crossover and the
> quickbooks data file is on the w2k3 server. If I can't get the thing to
> mount the way I want it, Can I somehow give the user (myself) root
> access to this directory?
> [...]

I'm thinking for mount it would go more like mount -t smbfs -o
username=...,password=... etc. I don't recognize the form in which you
give your password but this is how I mounted my stuff (with
username=none and empty password in my case)

greets,
wim