[linux-cifs-client] Replacing NFS

[Haakon Riiser]

[Steven French]

> When multiuser mounts are enabled ie
> echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/MultiuserMount
> cifs will attempt to map the current uid to a matching
> authenticated uid.  This can work if you e.g. mount the same share
> (UNC name) multiple times with multiple users. There may be others
> ways to achieve the same goal with trivial changes, and a more
> general client side uid mapping mechanism needs to be designed
> (not necessarily just for CIFS), but the existing approach should
> work as long as you have mounted at least once to the same server
> for each uid that will access the mount (we need an authenticated
> smb uid to map each local uid_t to).

Thank you.  One more thing though:  Why isn't it possible to set
all permission bits?  E.g., 'chmod 777 foo' only sets 744.

-- 
 Haakon