Mounting to a Windows Share

Steven French sfrench at us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 26 00:09:08 GMT 2003





>>Does anyone know if this will be possible in future releases of samba?
>It's not really a samba issue, it's an SMBFS issue.  You may want to check
>out the Linux CIFS VFS at
http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html

If "unix extensions = yes" in the smb.conf file on the Samba server, then
the cifs vfs can do chmod, chown, chgrp (the latter two are even easier if
the local and remote name user/group name maps to the same uid or gid) to
the server.    A version of the corresponding mount helper, mount.cifs is
also now available (and is optional, allowing you to mount using tcp names
rather than ip addresses).

Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at us.ibm.com



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