Server is RH 9.0, clients are W98, XP, RH9.0

Windoze clients are okay. RH clients show the problem.


On client, login as root, and mount a server's share:

mount -t smbfs -o username=adam,password=bar //192.168.0.23/stores /mnt/server

cd /mnt/server

ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 23 10:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 19 07:33 . .

touch fromroot

ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 23 10:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 19 07:33 . .
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 23 10:53 fromroot


On the client, exit and login as foo. The share is still mounted, but you can unmount and re-mount it if you want - foo is a member of group root and also a sudoer.

Either way, try to create a file:

cd /mnt/server

touch fromfoo

touch: creating `fromfoo': Permission denied.



Well, sure, that makes sense, after all the directory is owned by root, and it's 755, so only root can write on it...

But, does the directory really belong to root? The server doesn't think so, because if you look at that directory on the server (instead of from the client), you see:

drwxrwxrwx 8 foo managers 4096 Sep 23 10:50 /usr/data/stores


Now, on the client, the directory /mnt/server IS owned by foo, with permissions 777... at least, until the mount, and then it changes to being owned by root with permissions 755, hence root can create a file but foo cannot.

Is this caused by the serve or the client? I'm inclined to believe it's the client, because we CAN create files from the Windoze clients.

What setup on server and/or client do we need in order to be able to see the "real" permissions - or if we can't do that, what do we do other than being root to be able to create files on the server's share?

I think I've solved this one... or at least found a workaround

mount -t smbfs -o username=adam,password=bar,uid=foo,gid=managers //192.168.0.23/stores /mnt/server

This doesn't fix the permissions, but at least it lets foo own it