Hi, I hav a PC with OpenSuse 10.3. In my network there is another box named "dreambox" which is running a Samba server. I want to open a file on this machine with a Java program running on my PC. I mount the shared folder by issuing the following command as root: mount -t cifs -o user=root -o rw //dreambox/harddisk /mnt/dreambox Then I can list the contents of the mounted folder. The file I want to open is listed as follows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2147483580 31. Dez 11:45 movie.ts Then if I try to copy it to the local disk, I get an error message: #cp movie.ts /home cp: movie.ts cannot be opened for reading: No permission But according to ls everyone has a reading permission! On my PC there is also Windows XP SP2 installed. Under Windows i can simply mount the shared folder from the windows explorer with "extras->connect network drive" and can open the files on it for reading with any program. Under KDE it also works without problems - by opening the remote:/ view and klicking "add network folder". After I have added the network folder, I can copy files from it to the local disk without problems. Unfortunately, such network folders are not accessible in the file open dialog of Java programs. The files i want to process are a couple of GB large, so copying them to the local disk and opening them afterwards would be awkward as compared to working under windows where I can copy the file to the PC and process it in the same one step. Since the machine I want to mount is a kind of a multimedia box built on embedded hardware, I have no possibility to install new software on it. In particular, there is no nfsd installed on that box! The smbd version 1.9.18. I can only edit the configuration files and boot/shutdown the box etc. The contents of the smb.conf file are as follows: [global] character set = ISO8859-1 client code page = 850 load printers = no guest account = root log file = /tmp/smb.log security = share server string = DreamBOX - Samba Version %v workgroup = minander netbios name = DreamBOX [Configuration] comment = Configuration files - take care! path = /var read only = no public = yes guest ok = yes [Harddisk] comment = The harddisk path = /hdd read only = no public = yes guest ok = yes so, what am i doing wrong and how can I mount the folder so that it allows me to have read access to the files? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org