accessing windows server share on ubuntu 12.04 via fstab

Question

I want to give a ubuntu 12.04 user access to the shared folder of windows servers. I made the these changes to the /etc/fstab

//192.168.1.100/share  /home/user/share  cifs username=dem,password=****,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm  0  0

The problem is that the user can't make any changes to it, despite this user has full access to this share directory on windows server.

please advice

Answer 1

I think you have to add uid & gid that missing:

//192.168.1.100/share /home/user/share cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,username=dem,password=****, iocharset=utf8, sec=ntlm 0 0

from mount.cifs manpage--- uid=arg: sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem

To find the user's uid/gid that will have access to the share, run in terminal id username