OK - I have solved my problem. Following the two posts quoted earlier I changed my
fstab entry to add
uid=1000 and
gid=1000. The
fstab is now -
# Network USB Drive
//192.168.0.1/USB /home/user/USB smbfs umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,_netdev 0 0
I case it helps others the explanation of the entry is
//192.168.0.1 - this is the address of the modem
/USB - the name of the USB drive attached to the modem as the modem sees it
/home/user/USB - the mount point in the home directory
smbfs - the file system since this is a network drive using smb
umask=000 - sets permissions for anyone to write to files
uid=1000,gid=1000 - user and group ids
guest - I don't know what this is for but it is necessary
_netdev The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access
(used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these
filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system). See
man mountHope all this helps someone somewhere
This may not be a solution for others with different setups.
Alan