[Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

[Rick Johnson]

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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