Ubuntu mount point help

DustyMiller

DustyMiller

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I have an Ubuntu mount point to a CIFS share on my Freenas box, however whenever the CIFS share is mounted via my fstab file I lose access to it, and the user and group with permissions to the mount point are numerical, not root.

the mount options are user,rw,then my AD credentials.

What have I done wrong.

PS I am new to this Linux thing, and trying to learn.
 
it mounts but I cant get access to it. If I stop it from being mounted, the directory I have mounted it into is available, but as soon as the mount point is mounted I lose access, and the owner and group are changed to numerical values and not root.
 
I'm trying to:

sudo chown 777 plexmedia,

it asks for my password, and then I get a permission denied.

Whatever the mount command in fstab is doing it is changing the permissions to the folder / mount point
 
Have you tried NFS? Just follow a guide on google for setting up exports. You're going from a Linux mount to a Unix bases distro. I would use nfs.

With cifs/samba, I mainly use for mounting windows drives
 
are the creds are in fstab as user,rw,username=NAME,password=PASSWORD?
also as far as i used to find samba tends to throw its toys out sometimes unless you specify a uid and guid when mounting
 
got it sorted, I had to set the cifs share permissions to allow other RW access, so that the owner and group are my AD accounts, and other with RW allows the mount point to work. Bit of a mare. but it is kind of working.
 
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