Re: cifs mount options

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On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Alan M. Evans wrote:
> Just installed FC6 on my new workstation. Previous
> machine ran RH9. What a difference!
>
> One thing that's going to drive me nuts if I can't fix
> it: I'm trying to add a couple of company network drives
> to my fstab, and I can't get it right. So far I can
> create files on these volumes, but I can't edit the files
> I just made. I also can't write to any previously
> existing files.
>
> I have no trouble accessing and updating files from
> adjacent Windows machines, and no trouble if I browse to
> the network drive with Nautilus. I just can't make a good
> permanent mount out of it, which is really inconvenient.
>
> My current (non-working) fstab entry appears thus:
>
>   //merope/jdrive /mnt/jdrive cifs
> user=xxx,password=xxx,uid=112,gid=101,file_mode=0666,dir_
>mode=0777 0 0
>
> The uid and gid are the technical owner of the files on
> the (CentOS) server. (I presume that's what those options
> are for.) I've tried many combinations of other options
> with no success. Does anyone understand this stuff well
> enough to explain it to a simpleton such as myself?

Tell us if these network drives are on a Linux or Windows 
box.


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