Linkstation - share is read only - how do I fix it?

[rwduncan]

I have mounted the Linkstation on my Ubuntu Linux system. I can read everything just fine. However the whole file system is read only to me. I can not write to it from my Linux system. Can someone help me get connected right. (using cifs to connect).

[davo]

map it using SMB?

[rwduncan]

I have connected with smb and cifs. In both cases I can access the whole drive, just in ro mode. I have also tried to connect as guest and admin - no difference.

[davo]

Do you have any access restrictions set on the GUI at all?

[rwduncan]

I don't have any restrictions that I know of. I have been pretty much using it "out of the box".

 

New information: if I do "sudo command" the command works! So now, how do I convince the network drive that I don't have to be root??

 

SUCCESS!!!!!

 

I am able to do r/w as a general user when I have the following entry in fstab and do a mount -a

 

//<ip address>/share /media/public cifs guest,_netdev,rw,noexec,nosuid,uid=anyone,gid=users 0 0

 

<ip address> is the ip address of the Linkstation. "anyone" is a user placeholder (or so I understand),

"guest" is the guest user on the Linkstation.

 

I hope this helps other people out!!!