Connecting to SMB / PDC home share is read-only

I have an absolute mystery (to me at least). I have a Linux SMB server with home shares enabled. I connect to the home shares no problem from Windows. On my Mac (OS 10.6.3), one user is able to connect to their home share, but I cannot with my account. Investigating further using terminal, I noticed that the SMB mount (in /Volumes/%Username) is mounting with mode 555 (r xr xr x) instead of mode 755. I verified that there are no ACL's on these directories. The user that is working has their home directory with 755 as I would expect. Note - Mac OS GUI is doing the mounting automatically using the standard "connect to server" from Finder and just using smb://servername/username. It is bizarre, as I there is no difference that I can find between the two users on the SMB share and it works fine from Windows. I tried chmod'ing the smb mount to 755, but it just reverts to 555 on remount. I've done an "smbstatus" from the SMB server and it shows that my username is connected and shows no difference between the windows and mac, so all the permissions on the SMB server seem to be correct (I am connected to the home share with the correct username and not as "guest"). I'm at the limit of my expertise with this one.

Actually you do not have read/write access. Your Home folder is owned by the system user and the group is wheel. The correct values for a Home folder are:
Owner=you with r/w privileges
Group=staff with r/w or read-only privileges
Everyone=read-only privileges
Try this:
you can reset the ACLs on your home folder by the following series of terminal commands. It's up to you if you want to do that. I personally like them but I hate the way the ACLs are implemented in leopard so that many ACLs are invisible from GUI and yet can be propagated by using "apply to enclosed items" button. That's a major No-No in my book.
Here are the commands (in bold). just copy and paste the commands (they are in bold).
*chmod -R -N ~*
this removes all ACLs from files in the home directory.
The following two commands put the necessary ACLs back where they belong.
*chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public ~/Sites*
*chmod +a "`id -un` allow list,addfile,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr, writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directoryinherit" ~/Public/Drop\ Box*
The above was provided by user V.K. in this forum discussion.

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