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Old 10-02-2007, 11:20 PM   #1
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smbmount- everything is owned by root? can I make it another user?

When I mount a samba volume of a windows pc (fat32) onto my linux server, every file and directory is owned by root. Can I change that to be another user? It's messing up subversion...
 
Old 10-02-2007, 11:29 PM   #2
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It will have the permissions of whoever mounted it. You will want to look into mounting SMB shares as a normal user, or at least mount them via fstab and use the gid/uid parameters to control what permissions it is mounted with.
 
Old 10-02-2007, 11:42 PM   #3
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yep I just got it- needed to add 'uid=rotwang' among the options in my /etc/fstab. the same think you said to do, thanks.
 
  


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