Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[scoopy]

scoopy and DarkDead, please post the output of:

ls -n /media/sharename

-rwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 458840 2008-06-04 18:30 bluesoleil.exe
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-07-23 19:51 Bluetooth
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-04-19 08:25 Cashbook Data
-rwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-03 18:51 Default.rdp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 75 2007-11-29 18:48 desktop.ini
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-09-21 14:58 Downloads
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-06-11 17:44 Duty Rosters
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-10-12 18:46 Ella's Stuff
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-09-24 07:34 Hana's Stuff
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-08-14 18:24 ~Jodie's Stuff
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-10-27 19:55 luketest
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-01 16:23 My Google Gadgets
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-11-29 18:48 My Music
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2008-10-25 17:15 My Pictures
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-01 16:47 My Videos
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-03 19:38 software
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-01 17:45 Vision Design
drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 0 2007-12-01 19:21 web design

[Cammy]

I'm having a similar problems to the others.

I've gotten my shared network hard drive to mount after using tips from this thread, but it's owned by root. I've done a recursive sudo chown and sudo chmod to everything, but if I download a file and save it to the share, it won't save due to insufficient permissions.

I've even unmounted the shared and chown/chmoded the mount point, to no avail.

[dmizer]

I'm having a similar problems to the others.

I've gotten my shared network hard drive to mount after using tips from this thread, but it's owned by root. I've done a recursive sudo chown and sudo chmod to everything, but if I download a file and save it to the share, it won't save due to insufficient permissions.

I've even unmounted the shared and chown/chmoded the mount point, to no avail.

Any of you with this problem, be sure to check the permissions on the Windows computer. If you are positive that the Windows share permissions are correct, please try adding your Ubuntu user account (same user name and password) to your Windows computer, make sure the Ubuntu user is added to the Windows share, and retest by mounting with a credentials file in /etc/fstab. This should solve the problem.

In the mean time, I am slowly going back through this thread, because I've solved this before ... I just don't remember how. I would be grateful to anyone who could help with that search.

[Cammy]

In my case, there is no Windows computer. I have an internal hard drive mounted in a USB 2.0 enclosure and connected to a Linysys nslu2 Network Storage link. This is connected via ethernet to my router.

I have the same username on the Linksys device that I have on my local machine, and that username has R/W permissions on the network drive. In fact I'm a member of the admin group on the network drive.

It's the same setup I had when running Feisty, except I had to change my fstab to mount the drive in Hardy because things changed. Here's what my fstab entry for the drive looks like:

//192.168.0.77/music /media/music/ cifs credentials=/root/.credentials/credentials,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

The credentials file just has:

username=myusername
password=mypassword

The drive mounts and I have access, it just seems that anything I download to the drive (or copy to it) ends up owned by "root", assuming the download even works.

[dmizer]

@scoopy and DarkDead
Please try this solution:

//studycom/j/My\040Documents    /media/JodieFiles/       cifs    user,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,iocharset=utf8,nounix,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

@Cammy
Finally found what I was looking for here. Please try this:

//192.168.0.77/music /media/music/ cifs credentials=/root/.credentials/credentials,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

There seems to be a difference in how CIFS acts when presented with a guest account rather than an authenticated login.

[Cammy]

YES! You are the bestest ever! Thank you very much!

It works properly now.

[dmizer]

YES! You are the bestest ever! Thank you very much!

It works properly now.

Fantastic! Sorry that took a while. I'd forgotten how to fix this. I will add this to the troubleshooting section later this evening.

Glad you're working!

[scoopy]

All good!!! You Rock!

[DarkDead]

Thank you dmizer! It seems to work.

There's only one strange thing. With your fix my account has read and write privileges over all files in the share (and it's confirmed it has). However I still can't rename or delete those files, it's like I don't have the privileges. But this only happens in the root directory in subsequent directories like /media/sharename/something everything runs smoothly.

I believe this is probably some problem with Windows file sharing but I couldn't find anything wrong with it. Has anyone experienced something similar?

[nexusnode]

Hey All,

had a recommendation that this was the place to go for cifs problems, so here I am.

I have looked all over the place and I am slowly getting there but I am wondering whether you genii can help that last little bit. (Yes I am hoping flattery will get me everywhere )

So, essentially I can browse, add, delete and move files to the share but what I cant do is open an existing file, edit it and save it directly back to the mounted share.

The error message from gedit was "Not a Directory".

I found out thanks to another post on here that adding the nounix switch to the fstab entries meant that the original problems I was having dissapeared, and this works for 90% of the problem but I still get it in Komodo Edit (Excellent Programming IDE)

The Error Message reads:

There was a problem saving project "project.kpf": [Errno 20] Not a Directory:u'/media/files/project.kpf'

The bit that interested me about that was the preceding "u" before the directory string.

Thanks in advance! Any thoughts anyone?