On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, David Siedband wrote:
> I'm smbmounting shares from one RedHat(5.0) box to another(8.0). I
> would like to preserve the owner and group attributes from the box that
> is exporting the shares.
>
> The relevant lines from /etc/fstab all look like this:
>
> //oxygen/pyDes /mnt/pyDes smbfs
> credentials=/home/osiris/sambacreds,uid=osiris,gid=peoples,fmask=775,dmask=775
> 0 0
>
> Is there a value for the 'uid' property that will preserve the existing
> owner attributes?
No. The CIFS protocol does not communicate ownership in a manner
compatible with Unix filesystems, so it must be emulated in the client
code.
You need NFS.
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