[linux-cifs-client] permissions problem with cifs

[Jeff Layton]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:15:59 -0500
"Karthik Baddam" <karthikreddybaddam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>    Firstly I am sorry if this is the wrong list for cifs mounting
> problems.
> 
> I have a fedora 8 box and tried to mount my uni's samba drive, which  
> required specific username & passord. The username on fedora box is  
> different to that of the university's samba drive.
> 
> Previously on RHEL3, I could mount this with smbfs (which worked
> fine), but now on Fedora8 I had to ue cifs as smbfs is not supported.
> 
> But when I use cifs, I am not able to read or write to this samba
> drive. I guess this is cos, cifs supports unix file owner extensions
> (uid).
> 
> Is there a way to tell cifs to not use the samba server supplied
> uid's? If not how can I overcome this problem.
> 

Yep. Try the "nounix" mount option.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>