kmail files on samba

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Hi community!
as a new SUSE user (and on switching over from XP to a mixed system environment) I have encountered KMAIL issues I haven’t found solved yet:
I’m trying to save my mails on a remote samba raid disk (at present managed by XP, in near future by linux)
The samba is mounted via smbfstab:
//IP-Adress/Mail /home/myself/Documents/Mail cifs,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,username=myself,password=mypasswd

the smyptom is the old-known lost subject/from information which can usually be restored by deleting all index files, but not in my case.
Only difference I found are the access rights of the local maildir and the samba-maildir:

local: drwx------ 8 myself users 4096 22. Apr 12:56 mail
SAMBA: drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 23. Apr 23:34 Mail

Any more information required?

Where can I find a solution? Samba does not allow me to change the owner, so I couldn’t try this!

Thanks,
Mirakulix

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Let’s leave out the masks and charset for a moment. You remember that they’re there. I want to talk about these bits:

cifs,gid=users,username=myself,password=mypasswd

First up, there’s a syntax error. You have bundled cifs in as part of the options. It should be separated from the options by a space like so:

cifs gid=users,username=myself,password=mypasswd

Just so we’re on the same page: “myself” and “mypassword” as you’ve used them above, are the credentials required to be sent from the client machine to the server. “myself” is the username on the server and “mypassword” is the password on the server. Maybe they are exactly the same on the server as on the client. If not then you must use

cifs gid=users,username=myself_on_server,password=my_server_passwd

I don’t use (or understand) kmail. But if the problem is for the ownership to be user:group = myself:users for the directory /home/myself/Documents/Mail, then change the options to this:

cifs uid=myself,gid=users,username=myself_on_server,password=my_server_passwd

So try this as the line in fstab, perhaps leaving out the masks and charset for a while just to get it working at an elementary level, then try the masks, but see what this does first:

//IP-Adress/Mail /home/myself/Documents/Mail cifs uid=myself,gid=users,username=myself_on_server,password=my_server_passwd

Here’s a reference for a cifs mount: Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 10 & 11 plus FAQs

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Thanks swerdna
changed the comma (worked with comma in other smb-mounts, so not an obvious error)
The interpretation of the user/pwd was as you presumed.
The ownership changed as desired.
dirs and files are now rwx for all

This solved the problem partially, some of the mails are ok, others not and none of the mails in subdirs are OK.
This I read about somewhere, have to search for the thread again.
Also no index files are created in the Samba/Mail dir (or I don’t find them if they are saved somewhere else…)

so something I’ve to search… (or someone here knows the solution)

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If you chmod the directory on the server to a particular mask, it should automagically transfer across to the mount directory. That’s a good way to set the mask.

That’s about where my help stops because I don’t do Kmail. Hopefully some passer-by will help.

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Now an update to my configuration and some test results:
The samba server I use is a WIN XP NTFS-HDD. The result were partially unreadable mails. My search suggested a filename incompatibility with SAMBA/FAT32, maybe also SAMBA or NTFS, so I tried a suse11.1 samba server.
Samba (mounted in smbfstab) works fine, but my kmail refuses to start at all, I think it doesn’t find the samba mount. Using a local dir works fine.
access rights I have successfully set to 777 for all used samba directories.
any ideas?

How could I perhaps set kmail to a samba dir directly? (kmailrc general folder)