Problem with samba files ownership

[Nils Philippsen]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:40 +0000, mike wrote:
> I have a file-server running FC3, which is running in share mode (XP
> home machines)
> 
> I can mount shares and write files except for one major problem - all
> files are created with owner/group of nobody. This applies on bioth XP
> and FC3 machines. The same problem applies whether using smb or cifs
> 
> This causes problems especially sending mail
> 
> Any idea what is wrong?

I'd guess that your authentication fails and thus the user gets mapped
to the guest account which gets mapped nobody IIRC.

Nils
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