The problem is the home directories. Usually (without SAMBA) I just share them via NFS in such situations and mount /home on clients. However, since a file server (SAMBA) was already there, I tried to avoid setting up NFS. The following is what I did.
1) Added another user with uid=0 on the server, generated a password.
2) On the client, created the /smbhome directory, and executed the following command:
mount -t cifs -o user=mount,password=XXXXXX //192.168.0.100/homedirs /smbhome
This worked.
3) Logged in as a user. Tried to create a file in the place under /smbhome where this user could do so.
The owner of that file was expected to be that user (I wanted to have just a workalike for NFS), but in reality it was root.
Is that a bug in SAMBA or in the kernel or just my mis-expectation? Is it possible at all to use a SAMBA share as a NFS workalike?
-- Alexander E. Patrakov
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