Hello,
I am having a problem with RedHat 9 that I have not had with other versions regarding samba mounting. When I am logged in as “craig” (my username) I can right away and with nothing special configured go to smb://dan/applications from the address bar, it asks me for password authentication, and it reads and writes like it should. I am trying to mount my shares as boot-time in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
I created a credential file in /root called .smbpasswd and made the /dan and /dan/applications directories. I also created a group called powerusers and added the users “craig” and “justin”. The command I am issuing is:
mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/root/.smbpasswd,gid=powerusers //dan/applications /dan/applications
This allowsme to read/write to the /dan/applications directory just fine as root. When I log in as “craig” i can read but not write. This is mind-boggling because when I am logged in as “craig” and I do a “ls -l” it shows the owner of /dan/applications to be”powerusers”, of which I am a member. Am I going about this all wrong? Thanks for your help.
Craig Jackson
craig@jacksoncomputing.us