Have you added the rw,uid=fred,gid=fredgrp bit?
I've mounted a NAS disk on my machine with this in /etc/fstab:
//server1/disk /mnt/mydisk cifs
_netdev,nounix,rw,username=myuser,password=pass1,uid=me,gid=mygrp 0 0
(where my user name is "me" and its group is "mygrp")
An ls -ld /mnt/mydisk returns:
drwxr-xr-x 2 me mygrp 0 dec 30 15:54 /mnt/mydisk
(note the "me" and "mygrp" in the permissions).
The underlying /mnt/mydisk directory is owned by root:root, but that
doesn't show after the disk is mounted.
What does your mount command, or /etc/fstab line, look like now?
Simon
On 01/01/2014 18:14, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks -- using sudo tee did indeed work -- and I can create a
> subdirectory with
>
> sudo mkdir /mnt/abcd/foo
>
> Here are the permissions ls --l /mnt gives:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 May 6 2003 wxyz
>
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 17:16 abcd
>
> and ls -l /mnt/abcd gives:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Dec 27 05:07 2013-14
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 0 root root 104 Jan 1 18:08 fred
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 0 root root 8922 Dec 26 19:15 hello2.odt
>
> drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Oct 17 16:33 lost+found
>
> hello2.odt was created with windows and fred was created with the
> uname command above. However despite the mount point using the same
> user as the one windows created hello2.odt, Ubuntu cannot do anything
> without sudo at the start of the command.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
> *From:*hampshire-bounces@???
> [mailto:hampshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Michael
> Daffin
> *Sent:* 01 January 2014 18:00
> *To:* Hampshire LUG Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Hampshire] NAS permissions
>
> Chris is correct, if you want to write a file as root you should pipe
> the output through 'sudo tee'
>
> uname -a | sudo tee /mnt/abcd/xyz
>
> This invokes uname as the normal user, but pipes it to tee which is
> running as root, so writes to the file as root (it also prints the
> output to stdout as well, so can be redirected further if you wish).
>
> What are the current permissions of the mount and its contents? Can
> you write to a sub directory?
>
> On 1 January 2014 17:39, Chris Malton <chrism@???
> <mailto:chrism@cmalton.me.uk>> wrote:
>
> H Rob,
>
> On 01/01/14 17:31, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> sudo uname --a > /mnt/abcd/xyz
>
> uname -a will run as root, the output redirect runs as the invoking
> user. Therefore, it sounds like a Linux permissions issue over who
> owns the mountpoint. I need to understand this myself - so I'll let
> you know if I come up with anything.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
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