RHEL 4 smbfs mount gives permissions errors for non-root users
Issue
- New files cannot be created as non-root users on
smbfsshare. For example:
[root@kasane example]# echo hello > test.txt
[root@kasane example]# cat test.txt
hello
[root@kasane example]# ls -l
total 1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb 13 10:33 test.txt
[root@kasane example]# exit
exit
[teto@kasane example]$ cp test.txt test2.txt
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/example/test2.txt': Permission denied
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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