cifs mount options

[Alan M. Evans]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:20 -0800, Alan M. Evans wrote:
> It would seem that my effective UID on the server is not the UID I
> provided in my fstab. However, root on my local machine has no trouble
> editing files on the share. This leads me to believe that the problem is
> configuration of the local mount options.
> 
> It's apparently not the server that's preventing me writing files. It's
> my client, but it's enforcing file permissions from the server as if I
> were the user on my client machine. Am I making sense?

And with this realization, I took a fresh look at the mount.cifs man
page. There it was: noperm; problem solved! Greatly simplified my fstab
entry, too -- I only needed username, password, and noperm for options.

Thanks to all who responded. Sometimes we just need to talk through a
problem and the solution becomes obvious.