Re: [Hampshire] Can't write to NAS

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:14:19 +0100
"Rob Malpass" <lug@???> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm having a problem writing to one of my NAS devices with my Ubuntu
> box. Here's the setup:
>
> 2 PCs (one XP (marsh) and one Ubuntu (thomson))
> 2 NAS's (cnfs and cnfsusb).
>
> marsh (the XP box) can read and write to both NAS's.
> thomson can write to cnfs, but not to cnfsusb
>
> So one would think that it must be something to do with the
> permissions on cnfsusb - but the user I login as on XP is the same
> user I login as when I mount cnfsusb on thomson. I've set the
> permissions on the mount point such that any user can write to it -
> but when I mount it - these permissions are mysteriously reset back
> such that only root can write to it. Trouble is - even trying a
> simple
>
> sudo uname > /mnt/cnfsusb/fred
>
> results in a permission denied. The mount command I'm using is
> exactly the same to mount cnfs as cnfsusb.
>
> So I'm a bit stuck. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
> Rob

Is there an entry in the fstab which differs for cnfsusb which causes
it to be mounted ro?

John.