John wrote:
No offense but LOL same problem I had with Linux clients. Here is what I did; The only way I got this to work is add the mount entry to fstab.. auto-mount would not work right it would end up hanging the Linux client. //ethans27/SAN1 /mnt/SAN1 cifs user,uid=500,rw,suid,username=nobody,password=nobody 0 0
Obviously (?) I don't really want to give the nobody account a password (or even enable it). This was not my design decision.
BTW I'm forcing the use of a specific user in my smb.conf file. I see you have force group but you may have to include the force users=. One irritating thing I come to find out is the directoru perms have to coexist with whats in your smb.conf.
Hmmm. I haven't tried if "force user" breaks in the same way.
Ralph