UNC Linux Users Group

[Dan Blanchette <dan_blanchette AT unc.edu>]

Brian Pike ROCKS!
Thanks.  That worked really well.  The file/directory permissions aren't
flawless...like I can't get to a directory that has UNIX permissions
that say I can but has Windows permissions that deny me...but it's
close enough to happiness for this scenario.  I can work with it now.

I was playing with the uid and gid settings under the mount
command with the -U option at the end of the command like:

 sudo mount -w -t smbfs -o username=my_onyen  
//severname.domain.unc.edu/some_dir ~/some_dir  -U dan

and that didn't work.  But  Mike suggestion does work:

 sudo mount -w -t smbfs -o uid=dan,gid=users,username=my_onyen //server...

I also accomplished a secondary goal to liven things up a bit on this
list to show subscribers that it can be a useful resource and mechanism
to share knowledge/tips and tricks.

Best,

Dan Blanchette


> Has anyone running samba on their Linux box been able to mount a Windows
> file system with the CIFS protocol?
>
> 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!
>
> 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