samba - Oct 2004 - smbmount ignores uid option

Hi,

I have the problem that smbmount ignores the uid option. I use the 
following command for mounting a share which is located on a samba 3 server.

mount -t smbfs -o username=dfritz,uid=dfritz //i61fs1/dfritz /mnt/tmp/

A directory listing of the mounted shrare looks like:

drwxr-xr-x  1 dfritz root 4.0K Oct  4 15:39 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root 4.0K Apr  6 18:04 ..
-r--------  1   6501  602 220K Sep  2 17:10 04-16-1.txt
drwxr-xr-x  1   6501  602    0 Oct  4 13:58 Software
-rw-r-----  1   6501  602 589K Aug  7  2003 dokumentation.chm
-rw-r-----  1   6501  602 4.6M Jul 23 13:55 index.chm
drwxr-x---  1   6501  602    0 Oct  4 13:57 tmp

The uid 6501 and the gid 602 do not exist on my local maschine. 6501 is 
the uid of the user account on the server who owns the files.

It seems to me, that the uid option sets only the ownership of the 
mountpoint but not of the files on the mounted share.

The described problem exists only on my compute (Suse 9.1, Samba 3.0.2a) 
but not on any other computer (OS X and several linuxes)

Any Hints?

Dominik

Hi all,

I have nearly the same problem with an actual SuSE 9.1 (Pro) distribution. Older
releases (SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0 Pro) are working as expected with the correct
UID/GID. These distriburtions are based on samba 2.x clients - with 9.1 SuSE
switched to a samba 3.x client.

With SUSE 9.1 I tried the following alternatives mounting a samba share as an
"normal" user (the server is a samba 3.x linux host):
"sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=smbuser,password=smbpwd,uid=1000,gid=100
//server/share ~/mountpoint"
or 
"sudo smbmount //server/share ./mountpoint -o
uid=1000,gid=100,username=smbuser,password=smbpwd"
on the older distros I simply set the SUID bit of "smbmnt" and
"smbumount", so mounting as an user like described in the example
above works without calling "sudo".

I tried the alternatives from above with
- samba 3.0.7 (RPM binaries for SuSE 9.1 available at ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/)
- samba 2.2.12 - current stable version from 2.x series (sources from samba.org
- manually build)
- samba 2.2.8a - this version comes with SuSE 9.0 (old sources I loaded from a
samba.org mirror - manually build)
With all these versions the same problem - the contents of the mounted directory
is owned by root. So I guess the problem has something to do with a changed
system configuration, changed shared libraries or kernel update.

This problem was described some times before in this list, but I could not find
any answer for this issue.

I hope someone who solved it can help me or give me a hint what I could trie
next to find a solution.

Manuel