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Old 01-07-2007, 09:40 PM   #1
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Samba mounts share under wrong username


Hi,

OK Solved! by making the uid's for the users the same.
Is there a workaround for this? See below & thanks!

Samba is mounting a share I have on a Linux box consistently under the wrong user. My shares are mounted on startup via smbfstab in SuSE 10.2, but it happens when I'm manually mounting them as well.
One of the shares adds fine, but this one somehow always defaults to user 1003.
I have tried adding uid=xxxx; didn't work, neither in smbfstab as manually.
Tried deleting the user account on the server that the share is on, and to which it's falling back but that didn't work.
When I delete that user, ls -l gives the uid=1003 only; the username is now gone.
Thus it seems to be happening on the client side, or is there some user id transferred from that server?
Reviewed all permissions, inherit ACLS=on, reviewed all ownerships and passwords and even reset them.

Why would this happen?
I'm stuck now as I can't write to that share due to missing user rights.

Thanks in advance,

Marinus.

Last edited by Marinus; 01-07-2007 at 10:47 PM.
 
Old 01-08-2007, 02:54 PM   #2
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I'm really confused. What has your linux user ID's got to do with a share? Please explain what you are trying to do?
 
Old 01-08-2007, 07:10 PM   #3
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Hi ScooterB,

ownership;

mount -t cifs -o username=marinus,password=secret //SERVER/folder /mnt/folder changes ownership of the mountpoint under /mnt.

So if user 1005 owns //SERVER/folder that userid is reflected
as new owner of /mnt/folder after mounting. At least, on my side. ls -l before /mnt for example gives uid=1002, but after mounting it shows 1005 as owner if 1005 on //SERVER owns the folder.
If there is no username tied to the uid for the //SERVER/folder it just shows that uid. Otherwise, if there is, the username for that uid on the client side is listed as owner.
And I don't want that.

Marinus.

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Old 01-09-2007, 07:21 AM   #4
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I suppose it's a matter of choice, but when I set up shares on my samba server, I set up a corresponding group that has access to that share. For instance I may have a share called "sales". Then I set up a corresponding group called "sales" and allow access to that share for that group. Since linux permissions are based on owner/group/guest it is very easy to manage that way. Something to think about anyway.
 
Old 01-09-2007, 08:25 AM   #5
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Of course that is a solution, but in this case it does not apply.
Still hope I can find more information about this behavior.
Anyone know documentation for Samba that discusses these rules?

Marinus.
 
  


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