cifs + uid confusion
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 18 15:11:53 UTC 2006
Neal Becker wrote:
> I was hoping to switch from nfs to cifs on my linux systems to get away from
> the need to sync uid/gid. I am surprised to find:
>
> uid=arg
> sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be
> specified as either a username or a numeric uid. This parameter is ignored
> when the target server supports the CIFS Unix extensions.
>
> I don't understand why. I thought getting away from this obsolete model
> (needed to sync + identify users on different systems by uid) was a feature
> of samba.
This is seen as a feature rather than a bug (i.e. making CIFS work like
NFS).
> Is there a workaround?
>
> These are all modern linux systems (clients and servers).
On the samba server, put in smb.conf:
# Turn off unix extensions so that the
# uid= and gid= options will work on clients
unix extensions = no
Paul.
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