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

[James Sumners]

I know smbfs is deprecated. I suggested it for pretty much that
reason. It's old and might not be as willing to try and do everything
for you like cifs. The problem he is having is that the cifs protocol
is picking up two completely different uids automatically. In my
experience with smbfs, it uses the uid you specify and nothing else.

On 10/24/07, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 19:07 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Maybe you can mount it with smbfs instead of cifs.
>
>         smbfs is deprecated.  cifs is the replacement.  Even if smbfs works
> (unlikely where cifs does not) it won't be supported in the long run.
>
>         Mike
>
> > On 10/23/07, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks James. I read that article in my digging but I wasn't
> > > too keen on how to disable the cifs extensions. I think I need to hack
> > > the nas to get shell access to try that. It is a Western Digital mybook
> > > world ediitionII that some say can be hacked to allow access to its
> > > linux os. Wouldn't that be sweet?
> > >
> > > it is said that gcc is present so that opens up some possibilities.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > J. D.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/23/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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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James Sumners
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59