Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[trixon]

FYI
I wrote the post at the end a while back, and today a solved the problem.
I added the noperm option to my mount line, good or not, now it works.
Excerpt from man mount.cifs:

noperm
Client does not do permission checks. This can expose files on this
mount to access by other users on the local client system. It is
typically only needed when the server supports the CIFS Unix Exten‐
sions but the UIDs/GIDs on the client and server system do not match
closely enough to allow access by the user doing the mount. Note
that this does not affect the normal ACL check on the target machine
done by the server software (of the server ACL against the user name
provided at mount time).

I'm using Kubuntu 7.04 connected to a WesternDigital MyBook World Edition NAS.

It mounts, but I get problems with writing to the NAS.
If I do a smbfs mount, I get full access, but it is too slow to use.

fstab line:
\\192.168.0.99\public /media/pub cifs credentials=/etc/fstab_smb_credentials_1,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0 777,dir_mode=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

I get rw-access to files and directories in the root (not user root) /media/pub, but not to the subobjects.

For /media/pub:
drwxrwxr-x 8 root www-data 0 2007-05-12 11:29 pub
And for ALL subobjects to /media/pub
drwxr-xr-x 7 www-data www-data 0 2007-05-05 11:29 music

I have added myself to the group www-data, but that only gave me rw to the first level of /media/pub.

I've tried some chmod and chowns, as sudo, but the result is things like this:
chown: changing ownership of `music': Permission denied

Anyone?

[stueyboy]

Thanks for this guide. It has proved to be a much better way for me to access my linkstation pro without any nasty timeouts. Great

Thanks

[BoneZZZ]

I am trying to migrate from smbfs to cifs so I followed the instructions changing in fstab, this line:
//netbiosname/share /mnt/dir smbfs auto,user,owner,guest 0 0
to this line:
//netbiosname/share /mnt/dir cifs guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

I had a wrong IP resolution message, so the first thing I had to add is an ip= option in the cifs line (or add an entry in hosts file).

Then I got a "mount error 20: not a directory" and this is a wall

Any idea?

[dmizer]

please post the EXACT fstab line with your actual netbios name and share name, as well as your actual mount directory path.

also post the output of:

smbtree

[thisispeace]

I have a fun little problem.

The share mounts automatically, but the owner is "500", not root. I can't edit permissions or access the drive. Where did I go wrong?

[dmizer]

the samba server you're trying to connect to ... is it a windows server, or a linux samba server?

are you able to access the same share from another computer (linux or windows)?

[BoneZZZ]

fstab:
//NAS-300GB/DATOS /media/NAS cifs user,guest,ip=192.168.1.9,iocharset=utf8,file_mode =0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

smbtree:
TRAUMA
\\PORTATIL-JOSE portatil-jose server (Samba, Ubuntu)
\\PORTATIL-JOSE\IPC$ IPC Service (portatil-jose server (Samba, Ubuntu))
\\PORTATIL-JOSE\print$ Printer Drivers
\\NAS-300GB
\\NAS-300GB\IPC$
\\NAS-300GB\DATOS
\\NAS-300GB\MEDIA
\\NAS-300GB\PUBLIC

NAS-300GB is a Conceptronic CHD3LAN. No permissions stablished in it. Firmware upgraded to NAS-BASIC47 ...and still

[dmizer]

try this:

//192.168.1.9/DATOS /media/NAS cifs user,guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode =0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

[BoneZZZ]

Mount error 20 = not a directory



PS: Ubuntu 7.04

[dmizer]

post the output of this command:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.9/DATOS /media/NAS --verbose -o guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

also, do you have iptables (firewall) configured via a gui of some kind like firestarter or shorewall?