Wednesday, May 04, 2016

mounting a samba share with read-write permissions

Mounting a shared network drive on our internal server running Ubuntu - to make it read and write enabled, PB reports the command to be:
sudo mount –t cifs //ip-address/Share_name /local/mount/path –o username=correct_uname,uid=local_uid,gid=local_uid

Then, the local_uid user has read + write permissions.

Edit: 11 July 2016

This post about listing hostname with ip address is useful.

Also, PB adds one more tip - for mounting shares with spaces, use single quotes
sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.1/SHARE WITH SPACES' tempmount  -o username=guest,password='',nounix,sec=ntlmssp

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