CIFS mounted drives do not allow write access to program other than nautilus, gedit or the command line

[Duarte Molha]

Binary package hint: samba

Release: 9.10

This problem has started after I upgraded my system from 9.04...

I can mount remote drives using CIFS/SMBFS and I can create/edit files on these mounted drives using gedit and Open office... nevertheless any other program cannot edit any files on these mounted drives. They can be opened but when you try to save you always get an error saying tha the files cannot be saved.

here is an example of one of the mounted drives on my fstab:

//192.168.0.223/duartem /media/dell_home cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,nounix,noserverino,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

I have tried changing some of the options, changed the file_mode and dir_mode to 0770 and 0775.

Nothing seems to make it work...
I am pretty sure this config used to work fine in 9.04 so this is something related to the new version 9.10

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Please attach the output of dmesg.txt.

Regards
chuck

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

I am sorry but i do not know your to do that. Where can I find that file in the system?

Cheers,

    Duarte Molha

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

Anyone can help? Still having the same problem...
The volumes can be mounted and edited in gedit and on the terminal but other editors such as eclipse say the files as read-only...

I do not think this is a low importance bug... I did not have these problems in 9.04 but only in 9.10 so something must have changed in the new version to make this happen.

Best regards,

     Duarte Molha

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Duarte,

Attach the file out.txt file when you run dmesg > out.txt from the command line.

Thanks
chuck

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

Here is my output from dmesg

Cheers,

     Duarte Molha

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 13:54, Chuck Short <email address hidden>wrote:

> Duarte,
>
> Attach the file out.txt file when you run dmesg > out.txt from the
> command line.
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
> --
> CIFS mounted drives do not allow write access to program other than
> nautilus, gedit or the command line
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485361
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> of the bug.
>

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

Here is the output from dmesh

Cheers,

     Duarte Molha

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

Its been a long time since I provided the info required and nothing has been done about this... I still have this problem and I think it is a major problem!

No one else has experienced the same problems?

Best regards,

     Duarte Molha

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

I can't reproduce that. What are those "other programs" that can't access that directory ?

[Duarte Molha (duartemolha)]

Any other editors not included by default in the distribuition... Another editor I would really like to be able to save files is Diffuse. But every time I edit a file in the program it does not allow me to save the file. It allows me to create anew version of the file ("Save as") but if i try to save the file by modifing it directly it returns an error.

I can go that in gedit or nano or other programs.

Best regards

Duarte

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Not a bug in samba (or in CIFS in the kernel) then... maybe a bug in Diffuse and those other editors ? Maybe non-Gnome-friendly editors can't make use of the gvfs-smb layer ?