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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:06:30 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account?
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On 6/15/2012 4:18 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> 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.

You didn't specify the Linux machine name where the user ID lives.

>> 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.

This is not what you asked for but you can also try mounting the samba
drive using 'noacl' to turn off the POSIX view.


-- 
Larry

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