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I am attempting to mount a Samba share from a Synology. It's still Samba and Linux. The Guest OS is Ubuntu 16.04. When Ubuntu mounts the directory, it looks just dandy. However, I am unable to make changes to anything in that directory unless I sudo the modification attempt, at which point it works just fine. I don't understand why. The user on both devices is art, which I'm sure doesn't muddy the waters at all. </sarcasm>

I have the below line in /etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.14/files/Dropbox    /home/art/Dropbox       cifs    credentials=/home/art/.smbcredentials,uid=1001,gid=1001,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,_netdev 0       0

.smbcredentials has the user's login information for the Samba share.

username=art
password=XXXXXXXXXXX

How can I make this so I can modify it without needing root access?

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  • I would have checked the control panel -> user -> permission settings, Synology uses a modified Linux and your mileage might vary if you treat it just as a Linux.
    – mvw
    Jan 13, 2018 at 17:19

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The file /home/art/.smbcredentials was owned by root, readable only by root, but was in an inappropriate directory. Moving it to /root corrected the issue. Perms on /home/art were 755, but that was not enough.

Now that the file is owned by root (no change there) and in /root, it functions as desired.

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