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I am using UBUNTU 14.04 and I changed it to exactly look like 10.04. Found it much easier than current GUI of 14.04. I want to mount a network server(a cluster UNIVA GRID ENGINE) on my local machine so I went to Places section and clicked Connect to server, enter the server address and then it got connected. Under Places, there is a Network part where my mounted cluster is present and I can see it mounted(GUI). I have 2 question's as of now.

  1. I still haven't mounted it so as to access it from command line. Is this right?

  2. If yes for the question 1 , then I installed cifs and use

    sudo mount -t cifs server-name /home/user/Desktop/New -o username=XXX

when i navigate to /home/user/Desktop/New then if i want to use wget to download something it asks for root permission. Why is it so

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  • I don't think you really have a problem here. Root is probably needed because you're downloading something to/from a remote host. Sep 1, 2015 at 20:09
  • Follow the same steps on MAC, does not require root permissions. Why so?? Sep 1, 2015 at 20:20
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    Mac and Ubuntu are barely similar. Mac is loosely based on Unix, while Ubuntu is a modified Linux, which is based on Unix. It's like asking why cousins or siblings don't behave the same way. Sep 1, 2015 at 20:22
  • I have no issues downloading with wget using sudo but, lets say I have a GUI such as IGV which requires a genome to be loaded. If I want to launch that local IGV from my machine and load the genome file present on the mounted server, it does not allow it. In MAC no such issues, that's why I am asking is there a way for permissions to be changed Sep 1, 2015 at 20:26

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Regarding 2, try this, it will set your local user as owner of those files:

sudo mount -t cifs server-name /home/user/Desktop/New -O username=XXX,uid=yourlocalusername

More on this here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client

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  • I tried that and it gave me this [mount: only root can do that] Sep 1, 2015 at 20:23
  • Sorry, I forgot the sudo command, I edited the answer. Sep 1, 2015 at 20:27
  • Hi Jakob You have to change it to -o username and it works. This is because if I use caps it says enter root password of the mounted server Some thing like this: Password for root@//server/users: which is definitely not me Sep 1, 2015 at 20:33
  • Now let me see whether IGV works the way I wanted it to work and I will let you know Sep 1, 2015 at 20:35

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