I'm actually running core2 stuff but don't think it is realated to my current problem. Seems like a general fedora users type of question. I'm mounting Windows partitions remotely with cifs. No trouble getting them mounted but once mounted they are read/only. Its a fat32 partition in this example: (wrapped for mail) mount.cifs //192.168.0.15/win-d /mnt/win-d -o \ rw,username=Administrator,password='' That mounts the share without any errors etc `mount' shows it mounted: mount: [...] //192.168.0.15/win-d on /mnt/win-d type cifs (0) I'm not sure what `(0)' signifies but all other mounts show (rw) in that spot. Now as root, cd to it: cd /mnt/win-d touch it touch: cannot touch `it': Permission denied This used to work when I used smbfs, but the newest kernels do not have smbfs support yet and I'm being told to use cifs as replacement. Anyone here using cifs to mount windows shares that can coach me a bit?