Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have a Samba server whose shares are mounted by Windows (2000) machines > and Linux machines. We mount the SMB shares with fstab lines like > > //getserver1/GET-Gruppe /smb/get-gruppe smbfs > uid=benecke,gid=benecke,credentials=/home/benecke/.smb-login,rw,ip=getserver1,noauto,user > > 0 0 > > In Windows 2000, we can view the file permissions (with names and IDs) on > SMB shares although the respective accounts don't exist locally. (e.g. > Group "users"). In Linux, all we see is "rwxr-xr-x" and the user/group > specified above (or root) as the owner.
Have you tried not mounting specifying a uid and gid? > Is there a way to > - display the correct permissions at least for the user whose credentials > are used for mounting the SMB share? > - display the user _names_ of the users how they appear on the server? > > We are trying to avoid NFS for security reasons and because of the > needed reconfiguration _and_ because it would require syncing > UIDs/GIDs between our Linux machines which is close to impossible > because we are running different distributions (Debian and SuSE) and > different machines have different groups of accounts. As long as the names match, it doesn't matter if you're using anything that isn't specifically asking for numerical UID/GID... You make it sound like the names don't match, either, and I have to wonder, if you're in a locally networked environment, why isn't the user naming scheme the same? -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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