Might be reaching here but did you pass a password to Gnome "Connect
to Server" or was it a "anonymous browse" login?
If you supply a password to the "sudo mount –t smbfs" options does it work then?
On 1 January 2014 11:54, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
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> Happy New Year – my first post for a while.
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> 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.
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> If I then do:
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> sudo mount –t smbfs //sharename /mnt/abcd –o user=fred
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> then I can get read access to the mount point – but neither
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> sudo uname –a > test
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> uname –a > test
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> in /mnt/abcd produce anything other than permission denied.
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> I’ve never been too hot on umask and permissions but a quick ls –l /mnt
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> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 22 14:51 abcd
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> and even
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> chmod a+w /mnt/abcd doesn’t make a difference. It must be something easy –
> because if I connect to it via gnome “Connect to Server” – no worries – full
> rw access.
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> Can anyone help please? – this is driving me nuts.
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> Cheers
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> Rob
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