UNC Linux Users Group

[Brian Pike <bapike AT email.unc.edu>]

A guess: see the uid and gid arguments for smbmount:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbmount.8.html

so you could do something like:
sudo mount -w -t smbfs -o uid=dan,gid=users,username=my_onyen //server...

and then your linux system should show all of the files and directories 
you mounted as being owned by the user 'dan' and the group 'users'. 
(According to the mount man page, the options given to mount for an smbfs 
filesystem are just passed to mount.smbfs=smbmount.)

I do something similar on my system for sometimes allowing my normal user 
read/write access to my windows partition.

-Brian Pike

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dan Blanchette wrote:

> Has anyone running samba on their Linux box been able to mount a Windows
> file system with the CIFS protocal?
>
> I've been able to do this on my Ubuntu Dapper box:
> sudo mount -w -t smbfs -o username=my_onyen  
> //severname.domain.unc.edu/some_dir ~/some_dir
> but root owns everything so I have to sudo cp or mv files in and
> out...but I can edit a file in-place and save my changes!
>
> Perhaps the Windows server needs to be configured diffrently to allow
> the mounted directory to have my uid and gid own directories and files?
>
> I've read that making a Kerberos authenticated connection would help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Blanchette
>
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