[linux-cifs-client] mount.cifs permission denied problem

[Jeff Layton]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:36:11 +0100
Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli at coritel.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to make a file server with samba. I have got a folder called
> shared and I'd like to have N sub-folder for N users. The permission
> pattern is 755. Everything works both with Linux and Windows client. It
> doesn't work if mount the shared folder with mount.cifs. The situation is:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 0  3 dic 13:38 folder1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 1002 users 0  3 dic 13:39 folder2
> drwxr-xr-x 2 1003 users 0  3 dic 13:40 folder3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 users 0  3 dic 13:41 folder4
> 
> 
> If I use:
> 
> mount -t cifs -o credentials=<file>,gid=users,uid=1001 //<ip>/sharedoc
> <mount_point>
> 
> (uid 1001 is the uid of user1)
> 
> 
> when I enter in the folder1 and I try to create a new folder, for
> example, I receive the error permission denied! But the owner of folder1
> is user1! This thing happens only with mount, with smbclient command
> everything works. Can you help me?
> 

Who is the user in the credentials file?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>