I'm trying to mount Windows 2000
shared folder on Ubuntu in an effort to get Read/Write capabilities. Any advice?
I've verified that the user credentials have writable permissions from a windows machine.
update
`sudo mount -t cifs -o username=web,password= //192.168.15.10/Web /dev/fileserver`
//mounts as read-only
For network windows shares you need to specify the uid/gid that the drive should be mounted as and/or the file and directory modes to use since Windows doesn't understand Unix users and Linux doesn't understand Windows users or permissions. Right now, the share is probably writable but everything is owned by root so no other user can do anything.
Try:
Where linuxuser and linuxgroup are both your username in Ubuntu. If you need to make the windows share writable to everyone, then you can use
,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0666
instead of uid= and gid=. If you need some people to have access and others not to, then you can combine both of them:which will give write access to all members of
somegroup
but everyone else will only have read access.Your order of operations appears to be wrong. It should read:
You will be asked for your password. That should get the volume mounted.
Give http://www.debianadmin.com/mount-your-widows-partitions-and-make-it-readwritable-in-ubuntu.html a try.