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I have a new Western Digital My Book Live 3TB NAS drive and I need to mount it on my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop.

I have created a directory '/NASRichardsWorkLaptop' (changed its ownership and group to myself, and given it 777 access) and mounted the NAS drive onto that using the following line in fstab:

//10.0.0.14/RichardsWorkLaptop /NASRichardsWorkLaptop cifs  defaults 0 0

However, as soon as it mounts '/NASRichardsWorkLaptop' becomes owned by root with 755 permissions and then only root can write to it. I need it to be read write to other users not just root. Any idea who I can make that happen?

I tried sudo chmod 777 /NASRichardsWorkLaptop/ but the permissions remain at 755 even after this command (if its mounted), so I'm stuck!

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If you look at the documentation for the mount.cifs, you will notice a uid parameter (or guid)

  • uid=arg

    sets the uid that will own all files or directories on the mounted filesystem when the server does not provide ownership information. It may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid. When not specified, the default is uid 0.

  • gid=arg

    sets the gid that will own all files or directories on the mounted filesystem when the server does not provide ownership information. It may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid. When not specified, the default is gid 0.

Adding the uid (or gid) of your user (or group) to the fstab line will grant you the needed rights.

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  • @user118406 : Nice to have helped you. In the stackexchange world, a "thanks, that worked" is a +1 or an accepted answer ;)
    – Cédric Julien
    Jan 4, 2013 at 10:59

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