Comments on: Mounting Windown 2k3 Share in Ubuntu Dapper

by: jonboy

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:15:27 +0000

I also had this problem, and discovered that somehow my mount point had become owned by root, despite it being in my user’s home directory, and created by the user. Not sure how the permissions had been changed, but changed them back to the user again and all was well.

by: Luke

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:06:19 +0000

Good point. Actually, isn’t this the expected behavior? Every time I set up a read/write mount point outside of /home I usually chown it so that I’m the owner. It might not be best practice, but it doesn’t hurt.
I don’t think the the rw,user option in fstab overrides the normal file permission on your mount point directory, but I might be wrong…

by: Michele Bordi

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:47:49 +0000

Unfortunately it didn’t work for me; I got

mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID

I too had this problem
You have to set the right owner for the mount point

for example, about the command:

//server/share /mnt cifs rw,user,noauto,username=user,password=pass 0 0

/mnt has to be owned by user:user_group

ps. remember to add suid to umount.cifs too

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Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:03:31 +0000

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by: Luke

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:04:39 +0000

Korinthe - do you get that message when mounting or when trying to do the chmod?

Do the chmod as root and then mount. That may fix the issue here.

Either that or you don’t have mount.cifs installed. See if it exists in your /sbin directory:

ls /sbin | grep cifs

If it’s not there you probably will need to instal the smbfs package. On redhat that should be possible via yum no?

by: korinthe

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:42:03 +0000

Unfortunately it didn’t work for me; I got

mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID

by: Luke

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:27:11 +0000

Yup, Mookie’s suggestion worked for me too.

by: snark

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:15:55 +0000

THX Mookie!
I had the same problem and this fixed it!

by: Mookie Wilson

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:12:13 +0000

As root: chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs