[linux-cifs-client] permission difference between CIFS and SMBFS?

[Juran David]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 18:32 -0800, ext Linux Lover wrote:

> For example, if on the server side I have:
> 
> drwxr-x---  42 lynn lynn 4096 Nov 14 23:55 data
> 
> mounting it via CIFS, I get on the client:
> 
> drwxr-x--- 42 500 500    0 2006-11-14 23:55 data
> 
> but mounting it SMBFS, I get on the client
> 
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-11-14 23:55 data
> 
> Which lets me access that share as if I were on a
> Windows machine.
> 
> Any idea how to workaround this? That is, still use
> CIFS but not restrict access to the user who
> successfully mounted that share (using sudo)?

Sounds what you want to do is use security=share in the global section
of your samba configuration. man smb.conf for (much) more details.
Another possibility would be to use the uid=lynn option to mount.cifs.
man mount.cifs for further details.

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David Juran
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Red Hat
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