Confuzzeled... Mount a FreeNAS Windows share in Linux

[Binary Buddha]

Yes, I know should do NFS to make things easier. But, the Windows guys can't get to the share then.

So, how do the permissions for UNIX directory presented as a Windows share to a UNIX system with read-write?

 

[lleb]

SMB does not handle unix/linux permissions. NTFS =! ext# file system and does not use the same kind of permission scheme.

To mount a SMB share into a Linux system there are plenty of howto guides out there, but in short a few things are needed.

1. must have the SMB client software for your distribution installed.
2. create a mount point on the client (your linux system)
3. as root type: mount -t cifs IP_of_SERVER:/path/to/share/on/server /path/to/mount/point
3a. You might need to add things like username= or password= depending on how you setup the SMB share in FreeNAS

basics can be found here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client

 

[Binary Buddha]

SMB does not handle unix/linux permissions. NTFS =! ext# file system and does not use the same kind of permission scheme.

Yes... I know. Allow me to rephrase. What checkbox thingie in the fancy samba config gui do I need to allow everyone read-write. If it was a raw config file that I was looking at then I'd know what I need.

Also... What's with that "guest" mount checkbox option? Does it just make "guests" read and no write?

 

[SweetAndLow]

You don't need anything special for Linux clients. Just set your permissions correctly. The guest box is for smb guest access feature.

 

[Dam0]

sorry to hijack this thread, but @lleb says to try

Code:

mount -t cifs IP_of_SERVER:/path/to/share/on/server /path/to/mount/point 

i get operation not permitted when logged in as root

thx,
D

 

[Binary Buddha]

sorry to hijack this thread, but @lleb says to try

Code:

mount -t cifs IP_of_SERVER:/path/to/share/on/server /path/to/mount/point 

i get operation not permitted when logged in as root

thx,
D

Actually, thank you for proving my point.

 

[SweetAndLow]

sorry to hijack this thread, but @lleb says to try

Code:

mount -t cifs IP_of_SERVER:/path/to/share/on/server /path/to/mount/point 

i get operation not permitted when logged in as root

thx,
D

That's because that is now how you do a cifs mount.

Code:

$ sudo mount -t cifs \\\\<server IP>\\<sharename> /mnt/isos/
Password for root@\<server IP>\<sharename>:  ***********

OR

$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=<USER>,password=<PASSWORD> \\\\<server IP>\\<sharename> /mnt/isos/

If you do it these two ways it will mount but all the files will be owned by root:root. If you want them to actually show up as owned by your user then you need to provide a uid.

Code:

$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=<USER>,password=<PASSWORD>,uid=<local uid of user>,gid=<local gid of user group> \\\\<server IP>\\<sharename> /mnt/isos

 

[tfjad]

Also, depending on the Linux distro, the distro's Samba may default to only connecting to SMB1 shares. To allow Samba to connect to higher version shares, you need to have a line like client max protocol = SMB3 in the [global] section of your smb.conf file. In Linux this file usually is at /etc/samba/smb.conf