[Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

[Adam Williams]

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
>>>
>>
>>