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.
