Re: [tlug] Making a windows share with write permissions from Ubuntu

[Nikolay Elenkov <nick@example.com>]

On 12/22/09 22:56, Dave M G wrote:
> Godwin,
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> > Try adding rw to the options in your fstab entry for the share.
>
> Unfortunately, this syntax did not work:
>
> //192.168.0.5/Share /home/dave/Windows_Share smbfs credentials=/home/dave/.smbpasswd,gid=dave,rw 0 0
>
>
> Did I place it wrong, or is there something more to it?

Here's what I use:

uid=500,gid=500, 
credentials=/root/.credentials,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775 1 2

Where 500 is my UID/GID. Type this in a terminal to find out yours:

echo $UID

Btw, smbfs is deprecated in favour of cifs.

HTH