what are the settings on the share you're trying to mount? does it have
something like valid users = rickj
your user ID's in /etc/passwd on your local computer and the NAS
appliance may be different which is why the ls -l looks strange.
Rick Johnson wrote:
Actually, it WASN'T root that mounted the share. It was my user
account "rickj".
Re: NFS, to the best of my knowledge the drive doesn't support it.
And I TRIED using -o uid=1000,gid=100 (the respective user and group
IDs of "rickj") with the smbmount command (AND the mount command) but
the ownership still shows as it did below in my example.
Note: On my system "mount" doesn't recognize "-t cifs" and the man
page on smbfs says the following.
"Mount options for smbfs
Just like nfs, the smbfs implementation expects a binary
argument (a struct smb_mount_data) to the mount system call.
This argument is constructed by smbmount(8) and the current version of
mount (2.12) does not know anything about smbfs."
Best Regards,
Rick J.
Adam Williams wrote:
root is owing the files because the user root mounted the share. if
you want to support unix file ownership in your rsync you should use
NFS if the unit supports that. to change the group ownership, pass
the -o gid=some_group on your mount -t cifs command. you can also
use uid= and to use both, -o uid=someone,gid=somegroup
Rick Johnson wrote:
I have a network accessible (192.168.2.97) Maxtor Shared Storage
drive that I want to use to backup the Linux (Slackware) systems on
my private LAN. I can "smbmount" the drive okay on my Linux systems,
but when I try and use rsync to do a backup rsync fails with a
message about failing to change owner.
Digging a little deeper into the problem I find that the
directories/files on the share all look something like the following
drwxr-xr-x 1 35000 root 0 2008-02-12 15:21 ArchiveOnLinux
drwxrwxrwx 1 35003 root 0 2008-04-22 01:01 Public
-rwxrw-rw- 1 35000 root 1127239 2008-02-28 11:28 gw_rn_vp_grey.pdf
which ISN'T the user (or group) I would have expected it to be
mounted as. (I've done a chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt to allow users to
mount the share and I expected that the share would have the same
owner as the user that mounted it.)
I've also found that I can't change ALL permissions ALL the time on
the share's directories and files. I can remove group and world
privileges from a file (which are remembered after a umount and
remount) but I cannot restore them (even as root). Only the owner
privileges are consistently changeable.
Basically, ALL I want to do is to be able to use the drive as a
backup that will maintain the same permissions, user, group, etc.,
as the original files AND I want the files visible from both my
Linux AND Windows systems (because I need to use Nero on a Windows
machine to do the backups). Can someone help me figure out how to do
this correctly?
Thanks,
Rick Johnson
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