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Subject: Re: Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:02:59 -0500
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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


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