Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:11 -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone point me to a definitive howto on cifs mounts on Suse/Linux.
> (using 9.1, 9.3, 10.0)
> 
> In /etc/fstab, I have something similar below;
> 
> <snip>
> //windows_server/smbshare /mnt/smb_dir  cifs
> workgroup=our_group,password=xxxx,fmask=777,dmask=777,,username=someone  0
> 0
> <snip>
> 
> Whenever I try to mount it I get the following errors;
> 
> WARNING: 'fmask' not expressed in octal.

use 0777 instead of 777

> WARNING: CIFS mount option 'fmask' is deprecated. Use 'file_mode' instead.
> WARNING: 'dmask' not expressed in octal.
> WARNING: CIFS mount option 'dmask' is deprecated. Use 'dir_mode' instead.
> 
> ... and from /var/log/messages;
> Jun 29 17:02:38 server-1 kernel: CIFS: Unknown mount option fmask
> Jun 29 17:02:38 server-1 kernel: CIFS: Unknown mount option dmask
> 
> I'd like to use /etc/samba/smbfstab with credentials, but I seem to mung
> that up to the point that I can't mount the smbmounts.
> 
> Any and all help is most welcome. The man page isn't helping or, more than
> likely, I am missing something.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> James 
> 
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