samba - Nov 2001 - using samba to serve the whole tree of home directories

I'm trying to use samba to serve a number of home
directories to other samba Linux clients on my
network.

ie.  I have a set of client machines that want to use
the /home directory that my samba server will provide

I thought I could set up a share that goes something
like this

    [homedirs]
        path = /home
        writable = true

On a client machine, I smbmount //myserver/homedirs
/home successfully, but the permissions are not what I
want:

I expected to see something like

drwxrwxrwx    3 capdx    capdx        4096 Nov 19
15:26 capdx
drwx------    2 carol    carol        4096 Nov 20
14:36 carol
drwx------   11 jdiperna jdiperna     4096 Nov 19
19:05 jdiperna

but instead I'm seeing

drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 19
15:26 capdx
drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 20
14:36 carol
drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 19
19:05 jdiperna

I want the permissions to be the same as they are on
the server.

Any clues would be very much appreciated.

jdiperna@digital-lynx.com





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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Joseph DiPerna wrote:
> I expected to see something like
> 
> drwxrwxrwx    3 capdx    capdx        4096 Nov 19
> 15:26 capdx
> drwx------    2 carol    carol        4096 Nov 20
> 14:36 carol
> drwx------   11 jdiperna jdiperna     4096 Nov 19
> 19:05 jdiperna
> 
> but instead I'm seeing
> 
> drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 19
> 15:26 capdx
> drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 20
> 14:36 carol
> drwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          512 Nov 19
> 19:05 jdiperna
> 
> I want the permissions to be the same as they are on
> the server.
> 
> Any clues would be very much appreciated.
smbfs does not support mapping users. All files are shown as belonging one 
user, and all accesses to the server are made as the user making the 
connection.

Try using NFS. Or mount each directory individually (with some kind of
automounting, autofs, pam_mount).

/Urban