samba - Mar 2004 - Linux-to-Linux permissions?

Hey list,

I'm having some permissions problems with a couple of Linux boxes. I have 1
box set up running as a Samba server for our Windows boxes, which is working
great. I also need to have a second Linux box connect to it to run some
applications against it. So, I have everything set up in the fstab file to mount
the shared drive. That part works great. However, the permissions are always set
to 755, and the owner is always root, and the group is always root. This does
not work for me, as I need other users to have write access to the share. I have
set the permissions on the mount folders to 777 and changed the owner, but as
soon as they are mouted they go right back to 755. If I try to do a chmod or
chown, I get an "Operation no permitted" error. Through Gnome, if I
try check the permissions I want set, they are unchecked on their own right
away!

So, I've set my smb.conf file up to force all files and folder to have 777
access by default. No difference. I've tried specifying the rw flag when I
mount, the user flag, etc.. but nothing has made any difference. This seems a
bit odd to me that there isn't any way at all to set the permissions up
properly going between 2 almost identical machines!

So, if there's just something I'm missing, or if this is a known
limitation in Samba, I'd appreciate any advice on where to go from here.
Both boxes are running Fedora Core 1 on ext3 filesystems.

Thanks,
Brandon

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look at these options in "man smbmount". They are the same options
that can be
used in the fstab options section.

username= 
password=  
uidgidfmaskdmask
On Monday 29 March 2004 18:41, Brandon Laing wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm having some permissions problems with a couple of Linux boxes. I
have 1
> box set up running as a Samba server for our Windows boxes, which is
> working great. I also need to have a second Linux box connect to it to run
> some applications against it. So, I have everything set up in the fstab
> file to mount the shared drive. That part works great. However, the
> permissions are always set to 755, and the owner is always root, and the
> group is always root. This does not work for me, as I need other users to
> have write access to the share. I have set the permissions on the mount
> folders to 777 and changed the owner, but as soon as they are mouted they
> go right back to 755. If I try to do a chmod or chown, I get an
"Operation
> no permitted" error. Through Gnome, if I try check the permissions I
want
> set, they are unchecked on their own right away!
>
> So, I've set my smb.conf file up to force all files and folder to have
777
> access by default. No difference. I've tried specifying the rw flag
when I
> mount, the user flag, etc.. but nothing has made any difference. This seems
> a bit odd to me that there isn't any way at all to set the permissions
up
> properly going between 2 almost identical machines!
>
> So, if there's just something I'm missing, or if this is a known
limitation
> in Samba, I'd appreciate any advice on where to go from here. Both
boxes
> are running Fedora Core 1 on ext3 filesystems.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
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System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crashing.
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