Absolutely true -- I didn't have to look far to see how wrong I was. Sorry for the misinformation, Troy >>> Andy Schmid <andy.schmid at astound.net> 06/19/04 10:24PM >>> Hey, actually the username option is for the samba authenticatoin, the uid is for the local user id which you want to give ownership of the mount. Im almost 100% sure they do not have to be the same (i.e. same authentication for the samba server and local host) Troy.A Johnson wrote: >I haven't taken the time to look it up, but >including both 'username' and 'uid' in the >'-o' argument may be redundant. Have >you tried just using one of them? > >--- >Troy Johnson - troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us >Programmer / System Administrator >Minnesota Cancer Surveillance System - MDH > > >>>>andy.schmid at astound.net 06/18/04 5:57 PM >>> >>>> >>>> >Hey, I cannot figure out what the problem is here. I am attempting to >mount a remote unix samba share (server version 3.0.2). The problem is >when mounting, smbmount takes the owner off the remote server instead of >the one I locally specify. The command I am using is : > >mount -t smbfs -o username=schm1498,uid=1000 //mozart/unix_web /opt/test >Password: > >[root at sphynx:/mnt]# cd /opt/ >[root at sphynx:/opt]# ll >total 24 >drwxr-xr-x 6 root 4096 Jun 18 16:15 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 22 root 4096 Jun 10 08:51 ../ >drwxr-xr-x 1 murdok 4096 Jun 18 17:52 test/ > >[root at sphynx:/opt/test]# ll >total 18874376 >drwxr-xr-x 1 murdok 4096 Jun 18 17:52 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 6 root 4096 Jun 18 16:15 ../ >-rwxr--r-- 1 root 15364 Jan 16 08:51 .DS_Store* >-rwxr--r-- 1 root 82 Jan 19 15:07 ._Temporary Items* >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 352 Apr 12 17:35 .ldaprc >drwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 May 14 12:35 Desktop Folder/ > > >it gives the mount point the correct ownership, but everything recursive >of it is set with the servers ownership. > >The share mounts fine on other various linux/mac/and windows machines >but doesn't seem to work on my debian (sid) box. I am running kernel >2.6.6 and smbmount 3.0.4. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list