Infernal Linux file permissions...

[Mr.Clark]

Basically, I've got three folders on my NAS mounted in a Linux VM on boot using fstab.

I had this working, but I had to change from a Windows domain controller to a Linux one, and even though the domain, usernames and passwords are all exactly the same, one of my three mounted folders has locked itself to read-only.

Here's the output from /etc/fstab:

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//NAS/TV /mnt/TV cifs dom=DOMAIN,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,uid=1000   0   0
//NAS/Films/HD /mnt/HD cifs dom=DOMAIN,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,uid=1000   0   0
//NAS/Films/SD /mnt/SD cifs dom=DOMAIN,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,uid=1000   0   0

and here's the output from the terminal when I copy and check the file permissions for the folders in /mnt/

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mint@mint-virtual-machine ~ $ sudo chmod --reference /mnt/SD /mnt/TV
mint@mint-virtual-machine ~ $ ls -l /mnt/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 103 mint users 0 Sep 30 18:45 HD
drwxrwxrwx  13 mint users 0 Oct  8 21:05 SD
dr-xr-xr-x   5 mint users 0 Oct  8 21:55 TV

I've tried deleting /mnt/TV and re-creating it (just using sudo mkdir) and I've tried manually setting chmod 777, but it still doesn't give me the same drwxrwxrwx permissions that the working folders have.

Any Linux gurus able to assist?

[Mr.Clark]

Never mind, fixed it by using local permissions rather than domain ones. I forgot that every friggin' thing in Linux is case sensitive and the name of the NAS is in capitals.

Still not sure why it didn't work, and now I have two working domain logins and one local one, but hey, at least I can get to the files properly again...

[RB]

If you still need to set the permissions, try...

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sudo chmod 2777 /mnt/SD
sudo chmod 2777 /mnt/HD
sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/SD
sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/HD