samba - Mar 2011 - Write permissions denied only when connecting via mount -t cifs

Hello all,

I am having an issue connecting to a samba 3 share hosted on one ubuntu 
server to a  ubuntu client using the mount command.

I can happily mount the share, however It only mounts read only.

If I connect to the share using the smbclient utility - I can write.

Here is the 3.4 share config, straight from the ubuntu manual:

[global]
workgroup=WORKGROUP
security=user

[w]
         path = /data/w
         browsable = yes
         guest ok = yes
         read only = no
         create mask = 0755
         writable = yes

ls -l /data gives

drwxr-xr-x nobody nogroup w

I can connect from the client using:

smbclient //192.168.168.5/w -o guest   (this one works fine - i can 
create files/directories)

mount -t cifs //192.168.168.5/w /media/w -o guest,rw    (read only?)

Can anyone tell me how to mount in Read/Write mode?

Thanks.

From: Howard Cole <howardnews at selestial.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:38:47 +0000
> I can happily mount the share, however It only mounts read only.
>
> If I connect to the share using the smbclient utility - I can write.
(snip)
> mount -t cifs //192.168.168.5/w /media/w -o guest,rw    (read only?)
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to mount in Read/Write mode?
To set "noperm" option with "mount -t cifs" will solve your
problem?
"noperm" means to ignore permissions on client side generated by
"mount.cifs".

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at samba.gr.jp>

On 25/03/2011 11:52 AM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
> mount -t cifs //192.168.168.5/w /media/w -o guest,rw (read only?)
>> Can anyone tell me how to mount in Read/Write mode?
> To set "noperm" option with "mount -t cifs" will solve
your problem?
> "noperm" means to ignore permissions on client side generated by
> "mount.cifs".
>
> ---
> TAKAHASHI Motonobu<monyo at samba.gr.jp>
>
That worked! Thank you very much.