mkdir() permission denied on windows mounted drive - need help

[cland410]

Hey guys. This is my first post on phpfreaks and hope to come back much more to learn from everyone here. I've done a lot of googling on looking for a solution to this problem but haven't come across an answer yet. I am trying to figure out why it won't let me a create a new dir using mkdir() on a mounted windows network drive (using samba). The error I get is "Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in". When I mounted the drive I did mount -t smbfs -o uid=www-data, gid=www-data so that it would allow php to have full permissions to have access to the dir. The permissions are 777 on the dir and I still get the error. If anyone has any input I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

[Tonic-_-]

Try reading this?

http://www.php.net/function.mkdir

 

When creating directories in Windows, trailing periods (".") are ignored.  for example:

<?php

mkdir('c:/Buck Jr.',0755);    // on Windows creates "c:/Buck Jr"
mkdir('c:/Elipses...',0755);  // on Windows creates "c:/Elipses"
mkdir('c:/php.com',0755);     // on Windows creates "c:/php.com"

?>

This is a Window's quirk, not a php shortcoming--meaning that you get the same results from a Window's command prompt.

[cland410]

I don't think that will help because it's not a windows directory, its a mounted windows network folder on a linux server.

[cland410]

sorry guys, this seems to be a linux problem and not php. it seems my problem is getting a permission denied on trying to create a dir on the smbfs mount in general, even as root.