[solved] CIFS mount owned by fakeuser wheel

[Tony0945]

I want to share my documents across all my workstations, but am having problems.
Instead of user group "tony tony" I'm getting "fakeuser wheel"

I've had several errors that I fixed by googling the error message but there is no error message here, just strange ownership and readonly mount

Samba 4.11.13 both sides.
server's /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[Anon-E-moose]

I set "guest account" to my user name, in smb.conf, then all guest connections leave files with my user/group, but it's a global setting (I think)
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[Tony0945]

Like this?

[Tony0945]

Ah! I found a complication.
On the server:

[Tony0945]

The complication was the problem! I thought user tony was 1000 everywhere. It's not.
I this procedure https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-change-user-group-uid-gid-for-all-owned-files/ to change owner & group "tony" to 2000
on both the server and the client I was working on. After rebooting both, the ownership of the mounted files is tony:tony, not fakeuser:wheel

I felt a bit like zaphod Beeblebrox doodling on his own brain, but it seems to work.
The second workstation has virtualbox and I'm a little afraid of screwing that up.

BTW, be sure to unmount your CIFS shares before changing files. The best way is to shut down the samba service on the server.
I did this from a root VT on Mate, but it would have been better to have printed out the instructions then shutdown X ("service xdm stop" in my case)

EDIT: I've griped about the new account and group ebuilds, but I see their value now. It's best that those users and groups be uniform across the LAN.

[Anon-E-moose]

When I use the same id on multiple system (under my control) I've always made sure to set the user/group ids the same. And all that before acct-*
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