CIFS complains of error 20 = not a directory and doesn't use uid of local user

[harisund]

Hello!

I have been wrestling with CIFS for a long time now. What was the motivation to dump smbfs for this silly file system?

First, it appears I can not mount as a different user name compared to the one on the remote Samba server. The folder that is being shared on the remote server is owned by uid=1005, and even though when mounting it on FC5 with uid=500 it doesn't work

/sbin/mount.cifs //192.168.0.3/misc /home/temp/misc -o user=misc,password=ppp,rw,uid=500,gid=500,noperm

What's the point in uid and gid in the mount.cifs options then?

Now, I have a new problem cropping up. I get

mount error 20 = not a directory

wherever I want to mount it. What gives? I tried creating the mount point in /mnt, /home .. practically everwhere.

[Spoon!]

Originally Posted by harisund

Hello!

I have been wrestling with CIFS for a long time now. What was the motivation to dump smbfs for this silly file system?

First, it appears I can not mount as a different user name compared to the one on the remote Samba server. The folder that is being shared on the remote server is owned by uid=1005, and even though when mounting it on FC5 with uid=500 it doesn't work

/sbin/mount.cifs //192.168.0.3/misc /home/temp/misc -o user=misc,password=ppp,rw,uid=500,gid=500,noperm

What's the point in uid and gid in the mount.cifs options then?

There is only a point when the remote server doesn't support CIFS Unix permissions, or when you disable them using the "noperm" option.

Originally Posted by harisund

Now, I have a new problem cropping up. I get

mount error 20 = not a directory

wherever I want to mount it. What gives? I tried creating the mount point in /mnt, /home .. practically everwhere.

dunno, are you sure that //192.168.0.3/misc is a working share?

[mawimawi]

I have the same problem since I installed FC6. It worked well for FC5 before, and now I get this same message:

mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

And "man 8 cifs" isn't of much help as well. :-(

Maybe somebody can enlighten us?