X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_MK,TW_RW,TW_WX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FDB98AC.4080705@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:18:52 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account? References: <4FDB8FDC DOT 5060908 AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 15/06/2012 4:02 PM, René Berber wrote: > 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 > ... `mkpasswd` and `mkpasswd -l -U0-20000' produce the same output (neither includes the SMB user); the drive is mapped in Windows as z: and I can also access it directly from the cygwin prompt. > > same for SAMBA/CIFS, /usr/lib/smb.conf : > > guest account = nobody > Just to be clear, that's supposed to be on my cygwin (guest) side? I thought that file controlled the server's behavior... and I don't have admin rights on the server side. Ryan -- 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