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Why can't users besides root create files in a samba share?

I am sharing a directory on one Red Hat machine via samba, and mounting it on another Red Hat machine with the following command: mount -t cifs -o guest <remotepath> <localpath> The ...
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Unable to change permissions of file system root

When I write ls -la the output is : tusharmakkar08-Satellite-C660 tusharmakkar08 # ls -la total 88 drwxr-x---+ 10 root root 4096 Apr 18 19:43 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 18 17:35 .. ...
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External HD: “Permission Denied” on file write

I have a 3TB external hard drive that I plan to use for backups. I originally tried formatting with cfdisk, until I learned that only GPT supports 2TB+ partitions. So I converted the drive to GPT ...
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How to mount samba rw because everything fails

I'm trying to mount windows share on my laptop and everything mounts ok but somehow I get permission denied when I try to create new file inside mounted folder. I tried noperm, uid, gid, noacl etc. ...
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Mount cifs Network Drive: write permissions and chown

I have access to a cifs network drive. When I mount it under my OSX machine, I can read and write from and to it. When I mount the drive in ubuntu, using: sudo mount -t cifs -o ...
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Having owner access on files upon mounted NFS directory

I have a Linux RedHat server and a Solaris 10 client. I have mounted a directory which locates on the RedHat server, in the Solaris system with RW(read/write) option. I already have some directories ...
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Mount USB drive (FAT32) so all users can write to it

I have a USB FAT32 drive that is on /dev/sda2. I've mounted it as /media/bigdrive however, I get permission denied whenever I try to touch a file there as a non root user. When I run mount I can see ...
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Correct owner, group and permissions when mounting an image file

Suppose I have an image home.img of a home partition of another linux machine (B). On that machine there is a users userB and there is a special group, groupB. Consider for example a file fileB in the ...
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Mounting a Windows partition without giving execute permission

How can I mount a Windows partition so that the files within it don't have execution permission? I mount a Windows partition using: sudo mount /dev/sda3 win win is a folder in my home dir. This of ...
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Device is Mounting as Read Only (Can Copy Files as Root)

I am attempting to mount my Amazon Kindle, 3rd Edition. It automounts correctly and when I run mount -l, I get the following output: /dev/sdg1 on /media/usb0 type vfat ...
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How can ubuntu/truecrypt be configured so users can mount volumes if-and-only-if they have proper permissions on the mount-point?

If I add the line: ALL= /usr/bin/truecrypt to the sudoers file this lets all users mount volumes at arbitrary mount-points. The problem is a user could create a truecrypt volume and then mount it at ...
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Mount drive from redhat to a windows share with CIFS

I have been trying to mount a drive, but anything i do i get 'Access Denied', I tried: mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/m -o username=user,password=mypass /mnt/mymount mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/m -o ...
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Mount device with r/w access to specific user

How can I mount some device with read-write access to specific user?
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trouble with irssi and cifs

I'm having trouble getting irssi, the irc client, to write to a mounted cifs share. I have the uid, and gid set to my user as well as setting the permissions on the share to being very permissive. ...
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mount ramfs as user

My fstab entry: none /home/jreinhart/ramdisk ramfs defaults,user 0 0 The directory before mounting: drwxrwxr-x 2 jreinhart jreinhart 4096 Oct 17 11:31 ramdisk The directory after ...
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Mount permissions always blocked

How do I authorise my non-root user to manually mount/unmount ALL media on my desktop. I always get denied permission. Media refers to all mountable USB devices and other partitions on my HDD as ...
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Permission denied (even as root) on a mounted ISO image with Furius ISO Mount

I mounted a ISO image with Furius ISO Mount. I cd to the mounted directory and tried to copy a file with sudo cp file /dir but cp writes error message cp: cannot stat `file': Permission denied ...
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mounting volume protected against user access

I need to mount a directory in a way that prevents user accessing it. However I need to have access to all attributes (including permission) from root. Is following method safe or is there a way ...
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how to chown mounted device?

When I plug in my external hard-drive when running KDE, it prompts me to mount the device (by clicking an icon, no sudo involved), and once I've done that I am the owner of the files. This is great. ...
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Changing owner of NAS drive

I have setup a Freenas system that I would like to mount on my Ubuntu Desktop. Freenas is configured with cifs service. When I open the freenas server in nautilus smb://freenas/homenas/ I can create ...
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Make all files under a directory read-only without changing permissions?

First, some background: /dev/md1 is a RAID-0 array serving as primary file store. It is mounted to /var/smb. /dev/md2 is another RAID-0 array storing backup snapshots taken from /dev/md1. It is ...
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Permissions issues with mounting remote server into a specific folder

I'm doing the following to mount a remote server to a specific path on my server: sshfs user@remoteserver.com:/backup/folder/ /home/myuser/server-backups/ However when I mount the server the folder ...