[Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem
Adam Williams
awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Fri Apr 25 13:48:42 GMT 2008
what are the settings on the share you're trying to mount? does it have
something like valid users = rickj
your user ID's in /etc/passwd on your local computer and the NAS
appliance may be different which is why the ls -l looks strange.
Rick Johnson wrote:
> Actually, it WASN'T root that mounted the share. It was my user
> account "rickj".
>
> Re: NFS, to the best of my knowledge the drive doesn't support it.
>
> And I TRIED using -o uid=1000,gid=100 (the respective user and group
> IDs of "rickj") with the smbmount command (AND the mount command) but
> the ownership still shows as it did below in my example.
>
> Note: On my system "mount" doesn't recognize "-t cifs" and the man
> page on smbfs says the following.
>
> "Mount options for smbfs
> Just like nfs, the smbfs implementation expects a binary
> argument (a struct smb_mount_data) to the mount system call.
> This argument is constructed by smbmount(8) and the current version of
> mount (2.12) does not know anything about smbfs."
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rick J.
>
> Adam Williams wrote:
>> root is owing the files because the user root mounted the share. if
>> you want to support unix file ownership in your rsync you should use
>> NFS if the unit supports that. to change the group ownership, pass
>> the -o gid=some_group on your mount -t cifs command. you can also
>> use uid= and to use both, -o uid=someone,gid=somegroup
>>
>> Rick Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I have a network accessible (192.168.2.97) Maxtor Shared Storage
>>> drive that I want to use to backup the Linux (Slackware) systems on
>>> my private LAN. I can "smbmount" the drive okay on my Linux systems,
>>> but when I try and use rsync to do a backup rsync fails with a
>>> message about failing to change owner.
>>>
>>> Digging a little deeper into the problem I find that the
>>> directories/files on the share all look something like the following
>>>
>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 35000 root 0 2008-02-12 15:21 ArchiveOnLinux
>>> drwxrwxrwx 1 35003 root 0 2008-04-22 01:01 Public
>>> -rwxrw-rw- 1 35000 root 1127239 2008-02-28 11:28 gw_rn_vp_grey.pdf
>>>
>>> which ISN'T the user (or group) I would have expected it to be
>>> mounted as. (I've done a chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt to allow users to
>>> mount the share and I expected that the share would have the same
>>> owner as the user that mounted it.)
>>>
>>> I've also found that I can't change ALL permissions ALL the time on
>>> the share's directories and files. I can remove group and world
>>> privileges from a file (which are remembered after a umount and
>>> remount) but I cannot restore them (even as root). Only the owner
>>> privileges are consistently changeable.
>>>
>>> Basically, ALL I want to do is to be able to use the drive as a
>>> backup that will maintain the same permissions, user, group, etc.,
>>> as the original files AND I want the files visible from both my
>>> Linux AND Windows systems (because I need to use Nero on a Windows
>>> machine to do the backups). Can someone help me figure out how to do
>>> this correctly?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rick Johnson
>>>
>>
>>
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