View owner of file on a windows share

jsteel · 03-16-2011, 11:01 AM

I'm interested in viewing the owners of files on a Windows Server 2003 share (mounted on a Linux computer). These "owners" would be users in Active Directory. If it's not possible to see the username, I wonder if it will at least show a unique identifier.

Currently it says all files are owned by root with an "ls -l".

szboardstretcher · 03-16-2011, 11:15 AM

Well,. in Windows, i believe the command was:

Code:

get-acl

and in linux, its:

Code:

getfacl

jschiwal · 03-16-2011, 11:48 AM

Does the server support the CIFS extensions? If so, you should see the ownership using the `cifs' filesystem to mount the share.

A server may be configured to map bad users to guest. But since the owner is root, it sounds like the server doesn't support cifs extensions, in which case the files and directories will have the same owner determined by mount command.

jsteel · 03-17-2011, 04:22 AM

It is mounted with "cifs" but still says root owns everything. getfacl shows root owns everything too.

The Linux computer is not integrated with the Windows system, it is simply plugged into the same network.

What I have done is mounted a shared drive (with the Windows administrator account) on the Linux computer.

Thanks

jschiwal · 03-18-2011, 08:13 AM

I asked if the server supports cifs, not the client.

From the man page for "mount.cifs":

Quote:

uid=arg
sets the uid that will own all files or directories on the mounted filesystem when the server does not provide ownership information. It may be
specified as either a username or a numeric uid. When not specified, the default is uid 0. The mount.cifs helper must be at version 1.10 or higher to
support specifying the uid in non-numeric form. See the section on FILE AND DIRECTORY OWNERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS below for more information.

If the server doesn't support the cifs extensions, then the cifs driver will revert to smbfs behavior. You will need to use the uid=, gid=, file_mode= and dir_mode= options to change the ownership of all files and all directories on the mounted share.