[Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

[Rick Johnson]

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