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I have a network drive service hosted on Samba(Whose settings I can't change) when I mount it on my ubuntu pc using mount.cifs I am able to read write it's content. To make a directory or file there using sudo only(My current user have sudo rights).

Mount command used is: sudo mount.cifs //address.to.samba /mnt/temp -o"username=user,password=pswd"

When the network drive is mounted on /mnt/temp/, in my php program file_exists(/mnt/temp/) returns True where as is_writable(/mnt/temp/) returns false.

The permission of /mnt/temp is initially 755. But even if I do chmod to 766 for the directory it dosen't change.

what shall I do ?

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  • You should say how you are running this php, and who you think it is running as. Example: is this phone invoked as part of a web interface.
    – user459652
    Jan 4, 2019 at 8:01
  • @jdv I am running an apache server to host the php and the php is running becouse if I save it elsewhere it works fine and as well as all other things in php gives output
    – Shaleen Jain
    Jan 4, 2019 at 8:50
  • -o 'uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=...,dir_mode=...,username=...,password=...'. See the manual page for mount.cifs for details.
    – AlexP
    Jan 4, 2019 at 9:36
  • Thank you @AlexP It works. only if we set the dir_mode=777. please write it as a answer it will help others as well.
    – Shaleen Jain
    Jan 4, 2019 at 9:54
  • @ShaleenJain always edit the question when adding requested details. Neither question details nor answers should be hidden in comments.
    – user459652
    Jan 7, 2019 at 16:07

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CIFS filesystems get their owner and group from parameters of the mount command:

mount -t cifs -o 'uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=...,dir_mode=...,credentials=...'

See the manual page for mount(8) for details.

You probably want to mount the filesystem with the uid/gid under which the Apache HTTP server runs.

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