This one is really making me tear my hair out! I'm using FC3 with KDE (I had the same problem with FC2, though!) I want to mount my home directory on our (FC2) server on my own FC3 box using fstab. I have added this line to /etc/fstab: //fido/gardner /home/gardner/smbhome smbfs username=gardner,password=mypassword 0 0 When I reboot FC3 I see an icon on my desktop called "remote share" and it's mounted. I can open any file which is not in a folder, but I can't get into folders. I suspect this is because my uid/gid are 500/500 on my own FC3 box, but 668/668 on the server. However, why can I open files but not folders (permissions for both are uid=668 and gid=668)? I've tried every combination of fmask/dmask that I can think of, but with no joy. I even spent three hours on IRC with very patient people, but no joy either. I can access all files and folders as root. I ought to say that the reason I want to mount the Samba share is so I can save files directly to it without having to cut and paste (I can of course get in via sftp or the lan browser, -- what i want to do is, e.g. save a document direct from OpenOffice...) Has anyone run into a similar problem... and solved it? Best wishes, Tim timothy.gardner [at] english.op.org (English Province of the Order of Preachers)
