[ale] mount.cifs showing uid/gid of remote nas

[James Sumners]

This -- http://www.google.com/search?q=mount.cifs+uid

Returned -- http://lists.samba.org/archive/smb-clients/2005-May/000572.html

On 10/23/07, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have been trying to properly mount a samba share on my home
> nas. I can mount it but it retains the uid and gid of the nas
> instead of the local ones.
>
> Upon doing some research into mount.cifs it indicates
> that the local uid and gid parameters can be set  as arguments
> and that they should override the remote ones. When I
> try this though it doesn't seem to have an effect.
>
> Here is what I have tried:
> [17:51:54 root at servo /home]# mount.cifs //$NAS_IP_HERE/store /home/store -o
> username=$FOOUSER,uid=501,gid=501
>
> and here is what I end up with:
> [17:52:09 root at servo /home]# ls -l /home
> drwx------ 11       33 root        0 Oct 22 10:39 store/
> [17:52:12 root at servo /home]#
>
> As you can see the uid is 33 and the gid is root. It would be really cool
> for it to have the
> gid and uid of my $FOOUSER instead. This is under Centos 5 and I have
> duplicated similar
> trouble with Ubuntu 7.04. Help a geek out please. ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> J. D.
>
>
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