Looking for some help here. We bought a new NAS and facing this issue. We have a few shares that use both CIFS and NFS. Users from Windows drop files in the share and from a Linux machine an NFS is mounted and Nginx process the file. The vendor suggested we set the share as "CIFS" and create user mapping from the NAS.

When I tried to change the ownership (sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /mnt/test) to "nginx" (or any user) on the Linux machine, I am getting the following error on each file.

chown: changing ownership of ‘/mnt/test/index.html’: Operation not permitted

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So from the NAS user mapping (unix to windows), we have the following:

root -->webuseraccount in windows
nginx -->webuseraccount in windows


NFS mount as follows:

mount -t nfs myipaddress:/vol_digital /mnt/test

cat /proc/mounts show the volume as RW.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TT

Use cifs rather than ntfs:

mount -t cifs -o username=<webuseraccount>,password=<password>,uid=<UID>,gid=<GID> //<nas>/<directory> /mnt/test/BirstMetaData

The UID would be whatever numeric ID nginx has in /etc/passwd. The GID can be the primary for nginx or another group ID number. The "//<nas>/<directory>" is the the same URI used when you mount this share to Windows (reversing "" to "/" for Linux). Once mounted all files in /mnt/test will have nginix as owner.

In /etc/fstab that would be:
//<nas>/<directory> /mnt/test cifs username=<webuseraccount>,password=<password>,uid=<nginx numeric UID from /etc/passwd>,gid=<whatever group ID> 1 4

I thought about this a while ago (mounting as CIFS). Wouldn't the password be stored and considered not secure?

I saw this where they put the password in a file.

http://jensd.be/229/linux/mount-wind...n-a-secure-way

Thanks again.
TT

Regarding the original post. We are able to create a file from the linux machine but able to change ownership.

Possibly you need to ssh into the server to change ownerships of files on it.

It shows the appropriate permission.

MensaWater,

Your suggestion works! We went ahead and implemented a hidden file where only root could view and added to fstab.

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