On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <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.
I recall trying this with smbmount recently and it appearing to have no effect... filesystem still mounted root:root... I can't guarantee what samba/kernel version it was on though. So: If anyone does get this to work, please post and I'll try again. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
