Question about Networkfilesystems (smbfs)

wizardofos · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

Hi

I've a questions about Smbfs and Cifs. Why can I specify uid and gid when I mount a Samba share? Does this make sense? Because the uid and gid are set afterwards at the server to samba:samba.

Or is is possible to mount a samba share completely transparent, that means when i create a file as me:mygroup this will be set on the sambaserver too?

And does this got to do anything with "Unix Extensions" of Cifs?

Greetings
Fabian

Petyr · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject:

uhmmm, you can specify the uid and gid when you mount a Samba share. This only has the effect of changing who appears to own the files on the computer that is mounting the share, so I'm not sure if this is what you want, but yea.

checkout the man page for smbmount and search for uid. It's there.

Regards,
Petyr

wizardofos · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

Petyr · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

Sort of. Lemme give a more precise example.
Computer A is sharing soem folder, call it A1, owned by AU. Samba on A has rwx permissions in there, and a few other things are set in the smb.conf file, like force user = AU.
Computer B wants to mount A1, but the user BU wants to use it
smbmount //A/A1 ./mntpoint -o username=AU,uid=BU
after entering the password, A1 is mounted on B at mntpoint.
As far as B is concerned mntpoint is owned by BU, however when you write files in there that's where things are a little more insteresting.
From computer B, a file written to mntpoint appears to be owned by BU,
however on computer A, where the file ACTUALLY resides, the file is in truth owned by AU (as specified by force user)

I hope this clears a few things up for you. If nothing else, experiement with it =)

Petyr

wizardofos · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 201