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I am running OSX Lion as host and using VmWare Fusion 4 and the guest OS is Ubuntu 11.10 - all of my dev tools are on the guest OS, and the files are on MacOS - so I can use my IDE's on Mac and other stuff....

I am trying to setup a mount on the guest OS by editing /etc/fstab

I've got this in there.

//192.168.75.1/mysharedfolder      /mnt/sharedfiles cifs     user=USER,password=PWD,nounix,noserverino,sec=ntlmssp

I can list the contents for the /mnt/sharedfiles by doing this but everything is read-only. How can I give it full read/write control?

Any ideas?

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I arrived to your question because I googling about the problem with OSX Lion when exporting shares to (Linux) samba clients. You already figured out the hard part, that is, when mounting smb shares from Lion you have to use the options nounix,noserverino,sec=ntlmssp otherwise the client will not work.

Permissions should now be a much easier matter. First, note that by using nounix the uid/gid/modes of files will not be communicated from the server to the client. So you have to give them some value on the client side, say uid=1000,gid=1000 (use your Linux user values).

Same thing with the file and dir modes, they are not communicated between the two sides, so they are just "faked" on the client side to whatever you want, so using something like file=mode=0644 and dir_mode=0755 will make everything appear OK on the client side.

On the server side (OSX) the files will be owned by the user that you used to make the SMB connection and their permissions will be whatever OSX uses as default mask, I guess.

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  • Thanks for the reply. I added this ,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 to fstab mount command and I still get no permissions error when I try to do ls -l on the /mnt
    – Anuj Gakhar
    Commented Jan 28, 2012 at 18:21

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