Prior to mounting, I have created a mount point: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 12 2005 mockasin I do a normal mount: smbmount //mockasin/storage /mockasin -o username=tomber That works fine, no errors. (Signing is turned off in server) After mounting, I get: lara:/# cd /mockasin lara:/mockasin# ls -l ls: .: Permission denied ls -l / gives: ls: mockasin: Permission denied but lists the rest of the dirs and files in /. When umounting /mockasin, the directory is back to normal. uname -a: Linux lara 2.6.9 #19 Tue Jan 11 15:26:16 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux After searching the web, I find that I'm not alone with this problem, and some people states that it came somewhere between 3.0.2 and 3.0.4, but I haven't tested with that old versions.
please check with the smbfs kernel module maintainers about this.