The case at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=772038 has configuration files and such for the issue which seems to go back all the way to 2.2 version of samba cifs client on Red Hat. In summary, at boot time, with /etc/fstab we are trying to create a samba mount from a red hat client to a Fedora Core 2 server. No matter what we try the files appear to be owned by root and can not be modified by their owners. The user accounts exist on both machines and have the same uid gid on both systems. HP-UX cifsclient mounts which runs on top of a nfs client does not show the problem. Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server mounts also show correct permissions. Please let me know what other information I need to provide to document the bug. SEP
Try the cifs fs for the 2.6 kernel. http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html or look more into the unix extensions. We do not maintain the smbfs kernel module. Sorry.