No permissions when sharing a network mounted drive with SMB

[allwise]

Hello everyone on Gentoo forums!

I have a problem on my Gentoo box. A share from my popcorn hour (a media center that run linux) I mount in my Gentoo server. Since I didn't get it to work with NFS I mount it with SMB instead. This same share I would like to share from the Gentoo server on my network to my Windows PC through SMB. The sharing works fine, but I don't have write permissions to the shares from my Windows PC.

On my Gentoo server I can only write to the mounted drive with the root account which got me thinking of something with the mounting is wrong.

I here post the fstab line that mounts the drive:

[coolsnowmen]

I hate samba with a passion...ok now that that is over

Is there a reason you arn't using cifs?
I believe the relevant options are something like file_mode=????, dir_mode=????, gid=
And set the gid to the group you want to have access.

[allwise]

Hehe, thanks for replaying even though you have samba

I don't know the reason I don't use CIFS. Well, I guess that CIFS wasnt very big when I started using SMB so this is just a old habit. Whats the differences between them?

The reason I re-share the popcorn-share is that this contains movies only. I have this in the same folder as my music and webpages and so on. Partly because I want easily connect to all of these though a VPN or SFTP.

So can you give me a hint of how CIFS works and why I should use that instead of SMB?

Thanks =)

[jamapii]

I think you can just replace smbfs with cifs in /etc/fstab if you have cifs selected in the kernel config.