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How to take permissions from a mount point?
The ideal behaviour would be to just issue the mount device command either by sudoing or normally and the partition is mounted and also the folder is automatically created. If a Linux filesystem (not e.g. FAT32, NTFS) is mounted then the directory permissions for the root directory are taken from the filesystem.
How to automatically mount a folder and change ownership?
Groups are stored in /etc/group, according to the usermod man page. Ah the curse of writing a question and then finding the answer immediately after. So to add ownership and automatically mount in virtualbox via vboxsf in Ubuntu add to the /etc/rc.local file before the exit 0 line the command as follows:
What are the permissions for sharing a folder?
Now there should be 5 Items in the list, Administrators, System, Users, Authenticated Users & Everyone (Which Everyone is the user name Windows uses when you share a Drive or Folder or File). See Photo for the permissions allowed for each User or Item and set them as shown.
How to change permissions on mounted windows share?
(definitions of noperm and nosetuids are found in the mount.cifs manpage) Also, think about using a credentials file instead of having your name/pw in the clear: since fstab can be read by all. I hope you found out your answer by the way I think this issue is not related to samba option, I think this is for ntfs permission level.
Can a mounted file be unmounted by another user?
Only the user that mounted a filesystem can unmount it again. If any user should be able to unmount, then use users instead of user in the fstab line. The owner option is similar to the user option, with the restriction that the user must be the owner of the special file.
Is it possible to change windows mounted folder’s permission?
Is it possible to change permission on the mounted windows folder from Linux command (chmod)? No. CIFS much like NTFS is a virtual filesystem so chmod has no affect.
Do you need to change the mount point before chmod?
No. CIFS much like NTFS is a virtual filesystem so chmod has no affect. And changing the permission of the mount point before anything is mounted to it will have no affect either since the permissions after a mount always replace the permissions before the mount.