X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_MK,TW_RW,TW_WX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:02:59 -0500 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <4FDB8FDC.5060908@cs.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: <4FDB8FDC.5060908@cs.utoronto.ca> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 6/15/2012 2:41 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > When using cygwin to access a samba share residing on a linux host, I > get things like the following: >> -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 13K Sep 7 2010 foo >> drwxr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 0 Apr 26 2009 bar/ > > Logging into the box directly shows this instead: >> -rw-r--r-- 1 ryanjohn ryangrp 13108 2010-09-07 05:39 foo >> drwxr-xr-x 2 ryanjohn ryangrp 4 2009-04-26 15:24 bar/ > The corresponding uid/gid are 2680/10099. > > The main annoyance is that everything is read-only, even though I own > the files. I remember a long time ago being able to mount a samba share > under linux and telling it what uid/gid to use for unrecognized owners, > but I can't remember the magic incantation or find it on Google; plus, > I'm not sure it would work in cygwin anyway, since the mount utilities > are totally different. > > Ideas? Read the manual / help : $ mkpasswd --help ... -U,--unix userlist additionally print UNIX users when using -l or -L on a UNIX Samba server ... same for SAMBA/CIFS, /usr/lib/smb.conf : guest account = nobody -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple