The past 2 weeks I've been trying to figure out what was wrong with my samba. Jerome Tygate also posted in this months samba mailing list. I did on a linux client: smbmount //DORIYAKI/Audio_Visual /home/hotplainrice/smb4k/DORIYAKI/Audio_Visual/ -o username=hotplainrice,password=whatever,uid=hotplainrice,gid=users,workgroup=DORAEMON Then I proceded to the mount point and tried some commands. hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ touch ehy hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ rm ehy hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ mkdir temp hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ touch temp/ehy touch: cannot touch `temp/ehy': Permission denied hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ rmdir temp hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ So thinking its a permission problem, I did: hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ ls -l | grep temp drwxr-xr-x 1 9000 9000 0 2004-11-11 07:36 temp hotplainrice@1[Audio_Visual]$ On the samba server, smb.conf: Code: [global] workgroup = DORAEMON netbios name = DORIYAKI security = user .... [Audio_Visual] comment = HBO sucks! path = /smb/shares/movies read only = no guest ok = Yes It worked fine in Windows. After a few trial and error, nothing came up until I read the logs. Bill had the same problem and posted on samba mailing list June 2004. He states the problem and workaround. http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087651.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087676.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087680.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087690.html and he continued on: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087712.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087735.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087850.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-June/087854.html
for smbfs issues, you'll need to talk to the smbfs kernel module maintainer. Or you can try the cifs file system support in the Linux 2.6 kernel. http://us2.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html