[linux-cifs-client] CIFS Permissions mapping from Linux to windows shares

[apostolos pantazis]

I am mounting a few filesystems from a Windows share to some of my
Linux Servers. Recently, there was a lot of talk in regards to smbfs
becoming deprecated under the latest kernels and so we decided to
replace our smbfs mounts with cifs. Read the manual, looked online
Read the man page, made the appropriate changes in fstab and properly
mounted the filesystems. All ok so far. However, when trying to do an
ls from the Linux side to see the contents of the share - permission
denied. I kept the same permissions as the smbfs mounts used (only
expressed in octal for CIFS)the same username and password I was
mounting as before and no luck. What changed in CIFS in the way
permissions map from Linux to windows? If anyone could explain this I
would be very grateful.

Thank you kindly.
-- 
Paul