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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 animecowboy@animecowboy.com wrote:

> I am running 5.3r11 and I am having difficulty with mount_smbfs.  Basically I
> have a permissions problem that I cannot track down.  The remote filesystem
> mounts correctly, and as root I can view and write to it correctly.  The
> permissions to the base directory were originally 700, and sued to the owner of
> the base I cannot stat the directory.
>
> I have tried changing the owner to another user, but had the same effect.  After
> trying a few things I set the permissions to 750, and I could view and stat the
> directory.  So I think it is some kind of UID bit not getting set correctly.
> The GID seems to set correctly, and for the moment is being used for a work
> around.
>
> I have mounted this filesystem on a FreeBSD 4.10(almost identical kernel) with
> no problem using the 700 permission settings. So I'm fairly certain its not the
> remote server, but just in case, the remote is a win2k pro machine.

Try to use the -u and -g switches to mount_smbfs to specify the user
that should access the mounted file system.

harti