On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:20 -0800, Alan M. Evans wrote: > It would seem that my effective UID on the server is not the UID I > provided in my fstab. However, root on my local machine has no trouble > editing files on the share. This leads me to believe that the problem is > configuration of the local mount options. > > It's apparently not the server that's preventing me writing files. It's > my client, but it's enforcing file permissions from the server as if I > were the user on my client machine. Am I making sense? And with this realization, I took a fresh look at the mount.cifs man page. There it was: noperm; problem solved! Greatly simplified my fstab entry, too -- I only needed username, password, and noperm for options. Thanks to all who responded. Sometimes we just need to talk through a problem and the solution becomes obvious.