Ubuntu mount point help

DustyMiller · 5 Mar 2013 at 21:54

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.

DustyMiller · 5 Mar 2013 at 22:41

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.

DustyMiller · 6 Mar 2013 at 08:23

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

DustyMiller · 6 Mar 2013 at 10:53

The drive is available to windows clients also, so needs to be CIFS really.

DustyMiller · 6 Mar 2013 at 20:48

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.

DustyMiller · 6 Mar 2013 at 20:49

Thanks for the help.

DustyMiller · 6 Mar 2013 at 21:34

nope that still didn't work. God I hate Linux at the moment, But must persevere and learn it.