problem mounting a remote folder (on a linux box)

haora · 04-21-2005, 10:37 AM

Hi all, I've mounted a remote folder on another linux box (using mount), but every single file and sub folder in that folder apears to be owned by the root of that system, which is not true...

The problems comes when I want to create a file inside one of those sub-folders and "gVim" says I can't, it says: "Can't open file for writing", when I want to save a file....

Anyone knows why this could be happening???

Thanks in advance....

Fernando

johnson_steve · 04-21-2005, 10:49 AM

is it mounted -rw

haora · 04-21-2005, 10:56 AM

What I did was:

sudo mount -o username=usrname,password=pass //linuxbox/folder /mnt/folder

haora · 04-21-2005, 10:57 AM

What I did was:

sudo mount -o username=usrname,password=pass //linuxbox/folder /mnt/folder

Do I need to do anything else???

Thanks!
Fernando

johnson_steve · 04-21-2005, 11:02 AM

try:

sudo mount -o rw,username=usrname,password=pass //linuxbox/folder /mnt/folder

depending on your distro the default option could be read only (it is with Suse)

haora · 04-21-2005, 11:04 AM

I tryed that, but still doesn't work..., the thing is that with some folders it works, but with the one I need it doesn't....., the folder I want to write in, has permissions 777, that's why I don't understand what's happening.....

johnson_steve · 04-21-2005, 11:21 AM

so you can write everywhere in /mnt/folder/ except in 1 folder? are the permissions 777 when viewed from the client side? are you using nfs?

haora · 04-21-2005, 12:08 PM

nop, when viewing from the client side, the permissions are "drwxr-xr-x"

What's nfs????

Thanks!

johnson_steve · 04-21-2005, 02:50 PM

what are you using to share the files from one computer to the other?

haora · 04-21-2005, 04:11 PM

I have no idea, how do I check that????

johnson_steve · 04-21-2005, 06:51 PM

on the client side when its mounted:

mount

this will tell you how everything is mounted. what distro are you using? the same on both boxes?

haora · 04-22-2005, 07:16 AM

In the client side I'm using SuSE 9.1, and in the server side Mandrake....

This is what the "mount" command says:

"//sagan/webs on /mnt/sagan type smbfs (0)"

johnson_steve · 04-22-2005, 10:08 AM

your using samba. I don't know to much about samba. It's for sharing with windows computers and I don't have any. I like nfs.