Jens Heidbüchel
2006-Jun-09 09:10 UTC
[Samba] differences of links for root and unprivileged users
Hi all, I'm facing problems with my newly set up samba server. I use it to export home directories to linux clients(and also to Windows clients, but that doesn't matter :). Unix Extensions are turned on. Now, when I mount the share as root with no uid= and no gid= option I can create links and they are shown correct whith `ls -l` and on the server's file system. When I unmount and remount it with the option "uid=user", the links look like normal files and I am not able to create links as a user. (Operation not permitted) I want to use smbmount with pam_mount. Therefore (I think) I have to mount the share as root and set uid und gid. Can anyone give me a hint, how to create links as a normal user? I think, most desktop environments won't come up this way. I'm using Ubuntu Dapper Packages of samba and smbfs in version 3.0.22. Greets, Jens.