smbmount

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 2 11:35:08 UTC 2006


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Joe Barnett wrote:
> 
>> On the local machine, mount the share as type cifs, not smbfs.  I also
>> found I had to add "unix extensions = no" in the [global] section of the
>> server's smb.conf -- 
> 
> Why?

Turning off unix extensions on the server is necessary if you want to 
use the uid=nnn,gid=nnn mount options and have it working like smbmount 
did. Otherwise, it behaves more like NFS, matching up client and server 
users.

Paul.




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