At 2007-05-15T09:03:12+1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> However, just recently, I had a few problems with permissions on a CIFS
> connection. When I changed to smbfs it all worked. The ownership of the
> share refused to change to something other than the UID of the owner of
> the directory on the directory on the server.
Was the server running Samba? There's an extension to the CIFS protocol for
Unix-specific features. It's enabled by default with in most versions of
the CIFS VFS module.
It can cause problems like the one you describe as a result of disparate
configurations of the server and client (e.g. if they don't have matching
UIDs for the same named users, like the problems you can run into with NFS).
I end up turning the Unix extensions features off when the CIFS module is
loaded by sticking the following in /etc/modprobe.d/options:
install cifs /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install cifs; /bin/echo 0 >
/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
I don't recommend doing this in general, but if you're in a network none of
the UIDs map correctly, it can be handy.
You can also control it on a per-mount basis by setting
/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled to 0 before mounting and setting it
back to 1 after mounting. It should be a mount-time option rather than yet
another abuse of /proc, but it's not.
Cheers,
-mjg
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