Thank you very much for your suggestions!

Unfortunately, nfs is not an option. One of my two NAS (the Netgear) 
supports nfs, but I found out, that if I bind writing rights to some IPs 
of my subnet, it's working with that device.

Unfortunately the kernel, of the other device, does not support nfs. 
There's a community-build kernel supporting this, but I do not have 
enough confidence in my linux knowledge to change the kernel.

But I am confused what's the difference between mounting a share (via 
mount -t ... or editing the fstab) and accessing the share with nautilus 
(smb:[log in to unmask])?
I always thought, that cifs is the newer version of smb and that there 
aren't many differences.
When I am looking for mounted devices (mount or df) I don't get anything 
about the shares, which are accessed via nautilus - so they are not 
mounted!?


-- 
Julian Klein




Am 15.04.2010 19:14, schrieb Steven J. Yellin:
>     It doesn't look as if anybody has suggested solutions for your 
> problem, so here's some information that probably won't help, but might:
>     I have a Western Digital ShareSpace NAS which, like your devices, 
> did not preserve uid/gid on files copied to it under nfs.  But the web 
> interface for controlling the NAS shows an advanced option permitting 
> root SSH access.  I didn't see the option in the manual, but it's 
> there, and maybe it's available on one or both of your devices.  After 
> (temporarily) enabling SSH and logging onto the NAS as root (then 
> changing the password), it became clear that it's a computer with a 
> tiny memory and a puny processor running a small linux operating 
> system to control disk space with the help of software raid.  In its 
> /etc/exports was a line
>
> /nfs/Public *(rw,all_squash,sync,insecure,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
>
> Changing the line to
>
> /nfs/Public *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> and doing '/etc/init.d/S80nfsd reload' resulted in preservation of 
> uid/gid on files copied to it under nfs.
>
> Steven Yellin
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, julian_klein wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've some problems mounting some folders, located on NAS-Devices.
>> One is a old freecom fsg-3, the other one is a newer Netgear Duo.
>>
>> When I'm mounting the folders into a mountpoint in my user-folder 
>> using fstab, i can open, delete, copy or rename files using nautilus 
>> without any proplems.
>> But when I open any file with an application - for example with 
>> openoffice writer or another application - i can't save the file 
>> without problems. I have to save it localy, and then I have to paste 
>> it with nautilus. I can't create "working" files at all with an 
>> application .
>> But the "save-copies" witch are made for example by openoffice in my 
>> user-folder (.../.openoffice/...) will be empty files. In the 
>> cifs-folder, the files are created, but are empty (0 Byte) files.
>> When I open existing files I get an error, that openoffice can't 
>> create the save-copy. When I try to create files with openoffice, the 
>> error message says "General E/A error" (this error-message is 
>> translated).
>>
>> My fstab is like that:
>> //[IP-Numer-NAS]/[folder]         
>> /home/userfolder]/[folder]           cifs 
>> rw,username=blabla,password=blabla     0 0
>>
>> On the NAS-devices, uids and gids are different from uids/gids on my 
>> workstation, so using nfs is no option, I think.
>> When I mount the folders, using the gnome-menu option "Verbindung zu 
>> Server..." everything works fine.
>> So I think, obviously there is something wrong with my fstab syntax.
>>
>>
>> Could somebody help me with that?
>>
>> thx in advance,
>>
>> Julian
>>