Problem with samba files ownership

mike mike at bristolreccc.co.uk
Fri Jan 7 14:19:44 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:41 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 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

this is the output

[mike at datacc ~]$ smbmount //data_cc/datacc /home/mike/data3
mount.smbfs started (version 3.0.10-1.fc3)
added interface ip=192.168.1.6 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name data_cc<0x20>
resolve_wins: using WINS server 127.0.0.1 and tag '*'
Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.1.6 )
Connecting to 192.168.1.6 at port 445
Password:
[mike at datacc ~]$





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