<quote who="David Fitch">

> I have a directory shared/exported by samba and mounted on another (linux)
> machine.  The problem is when mounted on the second machine all the files
> and dirs in there are owned by root:root and rwxr-xr-x.  This is despite
> me mounting it by specifying a username and entering my passwd.  This
> means of course I can't write to anything under there unless I'm root.  An
> M$ machine can write to it ok.  So what can I set in the smb.conf file to
> fix it?  (it's not apparent to me from scanning the doco in
> /usr/doc/samba-doc.)

You want to add the uid and gid parameters to your mount command on the
client machine.

- Jeff

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