cifs + uid confusion

[Paul Howarth]

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.