title: How to mount a Amazon S3 bucket by using FUSE - S3FS
body: <p>This is driving me up the wall. I am still a little new to Linux but i do understand how to do most of day to day stuff I need to do. What I am trying to do is mount a Amazon S3 bucket to a mount point on my server.</p>
  
  <p>I running Ubuntu server 12.04, it is fully up to date. I followed this guided,</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.craiglotter.co.za/2012/04/20/how-to-install-s3fs-on-an-ubuntu-server/" rel="nofollow">http://www.craiglotter.co.za/2012/04/20/how-to-install-s3fs-on-an-ubuntu-server/</a></p>
  
  <p>In how to install FUSE &amp; S3FS on my server. But it just says it can not 'establish security credentials'. I have use a psswd_s3fs file within in the etc and have tried a .passwd_s3fs file within the home folder(/home/USERNAME - that is where I put it). These files do have the access key ID and the secret access key (ID:ACESSKEY) &lt;- format used.</p>
  
  <p>If I changed the chmod on either file, form 600 to say 777, it reports back that this is wrong it needs to have no other permissions. So I know its using the files.</p>
  
  <p>So what I am doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Also made a new user, the access details I have been using are for the default user login, but it would not take them either. Not sure how to asign that user to a selected bucket or do I have to do it some other way?</p>
  
  <p>Please help?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE :</p>
  
  <p>What wanted to know is if the detail I got from Amazon are right, so I downloaded TntDrive to test it in windows and there was no problems. Mounted my drive without any issues....</p>