User Permissions & Auto-mount On Windows Network Drive

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Hi all.

I’m running OpenSuse 11.2. I’ve got it running mostly the way I want and it connects to my wireless internet no problem. I have a external hard-drive on my Windows machine setup as a share folder. I can mount the drive with:


mount //10.13.23.2/D /home/james/mnt/win

However when I do mount like this it doesn’t give my any read/write privliages on the drive.

Also on a slightly different issue but still mounting related I have my HDD partitioned into four main drives (not including swap etc). They are my Windows drive, a seperate storage partition formatted for Windows, my main linux drive and a seperate parition for linux storage.

I want to have my Windows drive, my Windows storage drive and my linux storage drive all mounted on boot. I tried adding these to fstab, and they mount fine but again I have no read/write permissions. My fstab looks like this:



/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part5 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part6 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part7 /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part2 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part3 /windows/D           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part8 /home/james/mnt/data          ext3    flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0

The parts are as follows:

Part 2: Windows Vista Boot
Part 3: Windows Storage
Part 5: Linux Swap
Part 6: Linux Native (/)
Part 7: Linux Native (/home)
Part 8: Linux Storage

Lastly I would like my Windows Share drive to mount on boot but I have been advised that I would need to write a shell script for this, to do network checks as obviously I won’t always be connecting to my network. I know this isn’t the right place for this part, but could you point me in the right direction.

James

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On Thu February 11 2010 01:56 pm, jkraw90 wrote:

>
> Hi all.
>
> I’m running OpenSuse 11.2. I’ve got it running mostly the way I want
> and it connects to my wireless internet no problem. I have a external
> hard-drive on my Windows machine setup as a share folder. I can mount
> the drive with:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> mount //10.13.23.2/D /home/james/mnt/win
>
> --------------------
>
>
> However when I do mount like this it doesn’t give my any read/write
> privliages on the drive.
>
> Also on a slightly different issue but still mounting related I have my
> HDD partitioned into four main drives (not including swap etc). They are
> my Windows drive, a seperate storage partition formatted for Windows, my
> main linux drive and a seperate parition for linux storage.
>
> I want to have my Windows drive, my Windows storage drive and my linux
> storage drive all mounted on boot. I tried adding these to fstab, and
> they mount fine but again I have no read/write permissions. My fstab
> looks like this:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part5 swap
swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part6 /
ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part7 /home
ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part2 /windows/C
ntfs-3g flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part3 /windows/D
ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part8 /home/flatline/mnt/data
ext3 flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
>
> --------------------
>
>
> The parts are as follows:
>
> Part 2: Windows Vista Boot
> Part 3: Windows Storage
> Part 5: Linux Swap
> Part 6: Linux Native (/)
> Part 7: Linux Native (/home)
> Part 8: Linux Storage
>
>
> Lastly I would like my Windows Share drive to mount on boot but I have
> been advised that I would need to write a shell script for this, to do
> network checks as obviously I won’t always be connecting to my network.
> I know this isn’t the right place for this part, but could you point me
> in the right direction.
>
>
> James
>
>
James;

This HowTo by Swerdna should help you in mounting your windows share.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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On Thu February 11 2010 05:25 pm, PV wrote:

> On Thu February 11 2010 01:56 pm, jkraw90 wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
<snip>
>>
>> I want to have my Windows drive, my Windows storage drive and my linux
>> storage drive all mounted on boot. I tried adding these to fstab, and
>> they mount fine but again I have no read/write permissions. My fstab
>> looks like this:
>>
>>
>> Code:
>> --------------------
>>
>>
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part5 swap
> swap defaults 0 0
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part6 /
> ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part7 /home
> ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part2 /windows/C
> ntfs-3g flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part3 /windows/D
> ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500BEVT-35ZCT0_WD-WXE908AE4273-part8 /home/flatline/mnt/data
> ext3 flatline,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
>>
>> --------------------
>>
>>
<snip>
>>
> James;
>
> This HowTo by Swerdna should help you in mounting your windows share.

James;

Try adding the option “uid=<username>” to the fstab for your windows
partitions. Where <username> is the name of the user you wish to own the
files/directories. You have masked out write privilege for the owning group
and I believe you will find that the user is set to root.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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The uid trick worked for the Windows partitions but there dosn’t seem to be a link to the tutorial you mentioned about Windows Shares?

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On Fri February 12 2010 01:36 pm, jkraw90 wrote:

>
> The uid trick worked for the Windows partitions but there dosn’t seem to
> be a link to the tutorial you mentioned about Windows Shares?
>
James;

Sorry about that. Here is the link:
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html

Please accept my apology.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

6

Thanks. The guide answered all my questions and solved the problem.

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On Fri February 12 2010 07:06 pm, jkraw90 wrote:

>
> Thanks. The guide answered all my questions and solved the problem.
>
>
James;

Good to see you have it sorted out.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green