Re: [Hampshire] NAS permissions

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Author: Simon Reap
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] NAS permissions
Happy New Year Rob!

You are probably better off using "-t cifs" (smbfs is old-style!), and
having "rw,uid=fred,gid=fred" in the options.

Simon

On 01/01/2014 11:54, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Happy New Year -- my first post for a while.
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble setting permissions properly to mount a
> NAS device as read write for a given user. It's a brand new QNAP
> TS-412 and seems to be a little Linux box with a nice graphical UI.
> Surprise, surprise, connect via Windows and I can move, read and write
> with no user or permssions problems.
>
> If I then do:
>
> sudo mount --t smbfs //sharename /mnt/abcd --o user=fred
>
>


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