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I have a USB disk on a little NAS controller (NSLU2 running unslung 6.8) that I can access nicely with root with

mount -t cifs \\\\10.134.23.23\\DISK\ 2 /mnt/LKGD7F73A

However, when I run emacs from an user mode xterm prompt, emacs cannot read and write the files on /mnt/LKGD7F73A. Emacs can see the file but it says the file is not readable.

However, if I start emacs from a root console mode prompt, it can read and write the files.

I did a google search and read that I need to do a "umount /mnt/LKGD7F73A; chmod 777 /LKGD7F73A " and remount but this did not work.

How do I do this? Is there a procedure that will work for fd0 and other devices?

What can I put in fstab so /mnt/LKGD7F73A will automount?

In addition, what command can I use from the bash prompt (running as root) so other uses can access the mounted disk?

Thanks,
Siegfried

Dos this work for you?

Code:

mount -t cifs -o uid=<non_root_uid> \\\\10.134.23.23\\DISK\ 2 /mnt/LKGD7F73A

where <non_root_uid> is the uid of your user?

Thanks! That is progress! How do I make it available for all non-root accounts?
Thanks,
Siegfried

I'm not really sure. Try with gid instead of uid and give the group rw permissions. If necessary create an new group add all the users to that group.

I'm confused as I cannot detect the pattern yet. The solution of putting "-o uid=siegfried" did solve the problem on one distribution and I thought I had the problem solved. I think I was able to use it on ubuntu to burn a CD using nautilus.

But now I am on debian etch and I tried that trick again with

mount ... -o uid=siegfried,username=siegfried

and emacs comes back and says the file is not readable. So then I have to switch to my xterm running in root and copy the file from the samba share to a local copy where I can edit it in emacs.

So what else do I have to do so emacs can read and write files on the samba share? Root can do it but the siegfried account cannot. The siegfried account can see the file names and traverse the directories, however. That is progress!
Thanks,
Siegfried

It should work the same way on etch. I don't know what the problem might be there, as a workaround, you could mount it up on the one that works and nfs share it from there to any other machines that need to use it, just make sure you keep the uid for siegfried consistent on all the machines.

I was having trouble using Samba and NFS and I finally solved (one of) my Samba problems by remembering to use smbpasswd. I wish the authors of the samba client setup would put a little push button and edit box that would remind you to run smbpasswd by clicking on the button. Oh well.

Is there an NFS counterpart to smbpasswd that I need to use? I enabled NFS shares via the nice GUIs (I love these new GUIs on all the distros, I just wish they would work) but I cannot see visit the shares from windows explorer or by using the unix mount command. I get connection refused.

Thanks,
Siegfried