samba - Dec 2002 - Questions on fs mounting

Hi,

I have some questions concerning mounted fs on a linux system. I run 
redhat linux 7.3 on my laptop, and when I hook it up to a desktop 
Windows 2000 Pro machine, I usually mount (part of) the Windows 
directories onto my linux dir tree (say, it is to /mnt/samba). I use the 
following command:

    mount /mnt/samba

to mount the filesystem (file /usr/bin/smbmount has suid root, so I can 
do this as a user), and in /etc/fstab, it has the following line:

    //desktop_pc/drive-C    /mnt/samba    smbfs   
noauto,user,credentials=/etc/.samba-password 0 0

Here //desktop_pc/drive-C refers to the SMB share in my Windows 2000 
machine. This refers to drive C: in that machine, which has NTFS 
filesystem. Note that I install Cygwin on the Windows 2000 machine; so I 
have much a unix-like environment there.

My question is this: does smbfs support unix-like (or NT-like) file 
access control (like -rwxr-x---, or something like that)? As far as now, 
I always see ONLY -rwxrwxr-x or drwxrwxr-x. This is kind of annoying, 
since I saw variety of permission in when I check the files under 
Windows machine.

Please cc: me when you reply, since I'm not subscribed on samba mailing 
list.

Thanks,
Wirawan

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:53:16PM -0500, Wirawan Purwanto wrote:
> My question is this: does smbfs support unix-like (or NT-like) file
> access control (like -rwxr-x---, or something like that)? As far as
> now, I always see ONLY -rwxrwxr-x or drwxrwxr-x. This is kind of
> annoying, since I saw variety of permission in when I check the
> files under Windows machine.  Please cc: me when you reply, since
> I'm not subscribed on samba mailing list.
	I'm fond of these options when mounting smbfs shares:

	gid=dos,fmask=664,dmask=775

	I have a group on my machine called "dos" (you can use
	whatever you want).  Anyone who needs access to these
	shares goes in this group.  Files end up getting 664
	permissions (rw-rw-r--) and directories get 775 (rwxrwxr-x).
	This means anyone in the group can change files or dirs on the
	samba share.

	I don't believe that smbfs has the ability to support all of the
	fine-grained permissions that samba supports.  All the files and
	directories will be owned by the UNIX user you specify for the
	mount (root.dos in my case) and everything will have the same
	permissions.  You can't chmod a file on the smbfs mount and
	have the change propagate to the server, it just doesn't work
	like that.

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