Map SMB share with read write access

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Hi all,

I’ve been a lifelong MacOS user, but have decided to make the move to UbuntuBudgie. I thought my first adventure into the new would be moving a media server from Mac to Budgie. anyways… programs installed, when I access them via the browser and try to point to a media folder which is on a network drive.

1st try - I mount the SMB share via network (using smb creds) it’s on the desktop but am unable to access it while trying to add media folder via browser - in macOS I’d just navigate to /Volumes/SMBshare

2nd try - I did the following:

  • installed CIFS utils w/ sudo apt-get cifs_utils
  • created a mount point w/ sudo mkdir /media/macmini_raid
  • created a credentials file in ~/.smbcreds…
  • then mounted with :
  • sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,vers=3.0,credentials=root./smbcredentials //serverIP/sharename /media/macmini_raid

i’ve also modified my etc/fstab. everything mounts, it’s just read only. So I can access it but the program won’t add it since it needs r/w ability

here’s what I added to fstab

//192.168.254.161/macmini\ raid/ /media/macmini_raid cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=077 0 0

If I open files, navigate to /media/macmini_raid and open as root I have r/w permission but obviously that doesn’t do the trick.

I googled, and found about 12 different slightly different ways to do this. I’ve tried them all and have had no success. So here I am.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi and welcome

This is a generic issue that readily applies to all Ubuntu flavours. As such the wider Ubuntu community can help as well via

askubuntu.com and ubuntuforums.org

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Out of my hat, quickly…

While dealing with smb, many things can go wrong.

Credentials : these are the ones expected by the samba server, hear an already existing user known by the samba-server.
How is your samba-server configured regarding security ? I think nowadays the lowest is at « user level » requiring at least an id + pwd for each potential user.

fstab : maybe it’s not a problem but I thought the « space character » should be replaced by /040 and not by \{space}

//192.168.254.161/macmini/040raid/ /media/macmini_raid cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=077 0 0

I’m not either sure of your file_ and dir_ modes, I’d expect 0644 for files and 0755 for dir’s.
And if you actually wrote 077 for dir_mode, you probably « block » any action from user on those dir’s so maybe an explanation ?