Michael Heydon wrote: > Pakorn Chutinimitkul wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I updated Samba on both client and server to 3.0.28a. Client is >> openSuSE 10.2. Server is Debian Lenny. I noticed that newly created >> file's >> ownership will be changed to username that is used when mounting CIFS >> volume (under -o username=xxx,password=xxx) and the permission will be >> changed to what specified under samba configuration. > Anyone who can log into the client can see the contents of fstab (and > therefore your passwords), consider using a credentials file chmod'ed to > 600. > >> Here's my config >> >> [global] >> <snip> >> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE >> SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 >> > Unless you have a good reason to be messing with the buffer sizes, > don't. Modern OS's have perfectly good defaults, don't cripple them by > using custom settings that were good 5 (10?) years ago.
Whoops! Didn't realize that the article I found is really really old. Thanks for the advice! >> <snip> >> >> [testvolume1] >> comment = CIFS Mount >> path = /mnt/disk1 >> valid users = @users >> admin users = @root >> write list = @users >> read only = No >> hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 >> > This is OK-ish. The write list is pointless since the share is not read > only. Do you really need the admin users setting? I'm sure there are > situations where it is required, but I have never seen one personally > and I can think of situations where it would cause problems. > > All in all, there doesn't seem to be too much wrong with this setup. >> <snip> >> >> >> Now for every file created by users logged into that machine, the >> ownership is changed to machine1 automatically. Is there any way to solve >> this problem? Thank you very much! >> >> Pakorn >> <snip> > Can you send the output of "mount" (with the password removed if you so > wish)? Here's what I used to mount the CIFS volume mount.cifs //192.168.0.1/testvolume1 /mnt-o username=machine1,password=machine1 and after that, here's the output from the mount command //192.168.0.1/testvolume1 on /mnt type cifs (rw,mand) Thank you! Pakorn > > *Michael Heydon - IT Administratorr * > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Best Regards, Pakorn Chunimitkul IT Manager The Monk Studio, Bangkok Tel: +66(0)-2717-2075 http://www.themonkstudio.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
