Re: [LUG] Samba problems :-(

[Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:

> Hmm, seems to be working now, although I still have permissions 
> problems.  For instance, on the server, it's:
>
> "drwxr-xr-x    3 jon      jon          4096 Jan 10 16:44 zero_7"
>
> Whereas when I view the same directory mounted on my laptop over SMB, 
> it becomes:
>
> "dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         4096 Jul 20  2003 zero_7"
>
> The share is supposed to be read/write for my user only, and is 
> mounted by this line in fstab:
>
> "//server/music  /home/jon/music smbfs   username=jon,password=pass,rw"


SMB mounts don't bring the ownership details with them, you have to tell 
it who should own the files on the local system.
Check out the uid/gid options

Eg.

//server/music  /home/jon/music smbfs   
uid=jon,gid=jon,username=jon,password=pass,rw

Pete


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