Try adding to the fstab options uid=#### with the #### replaced with the user id you are using. If you are using more users other options may be needed.
Edit: also check 'man mount.cifs' for other options.
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Could it be set with a gid and with write permissions for the group, therefore giving users in that group write access?
Yes, that should work as well.
Thanks!
That unfortunately didn't work, but I really do appreciate your response.
I just had to add an entry for my uid and then "forceuid", and it worked!
To amplify RedWeasel’s very good answer, fstab runs as root and unless you specify otherwise, the share will mount with root as the owner on the local machine. From the perspective of the Samba server, it’s the Jellyfin user accessing the files, but on the local machine, but local permissions come into play as well. That’s why you can get at the files when you connect to the share from Dolphin in your KDE system—it’s your own user that’s mounting the share locally.
Here a post with similar question and an answer from two years ago where the OP claims that using uid= did not work : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/687764/mount-t-cifs-only-mounts-as-root-and-no-longer-honours-uid-and-gid
From that link the comment starting with this paragraph below may work :
It occurs to me that as (a) I'm the only one accessing this share and (b) mode changes are not written back to the CIFS filesystem anyway, it doesn't matter whether the mode is 777 or 755. Therefore, the following fixes the issue:
That worked! Thank you very much!
I think you should mount using gvfs or kiofuse and not fstab, to have user permissions?
Or use udisksctl