FC2/smbfs weirdness
Glen Shadbolt
shadbolt at umich.edu
Wed May 19 05:00:38 UTC 2004
Glen Shadbolt wrote:
> I have a samba share on a Mac that I mount using /etc/fstab. Here is the
> entry that I used to mount it on FC1.
>
> //host/glen /mnt/glen smbfs
> credentials=/etc/credentials/glen,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
>
> That worked fine under FC1, but not with FC2. Under FC1 the contents of
> the share all showed the correct owner and permissions. Under FC2 the
> owner shows up as "games". I checked the uid for my account on the Mac,
> and the uid for for the user "games" on my linux box, and sure enough
> they both have the same uid (501). So obviously the problem is that FC2
> is now using the uid to determine permissions rather than the "owner".
>
> So I know what the problem is. Is there any way to fix this (short of
> screwing around with the accounts on my Mac so that the uids match)?
>
> Glen
Small correction. The owner actually shows as "501". It is the group
that shows as "games".
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