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

Shirish Pargaonkar shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 13:29:28 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM, apostolos pantazis
<apostolos.pantazis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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How are you mounting the share?  Would you be able to provide that entry?
You can also add cifsacl mount option.
What is the version of cifs module?

If you can provide a tcpdump of the failing ls command, that would be useful.

Regards,

Shirish


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