[ale] Mounting /home and /data with cifs on a server?

[James Sumners]

You can specify a user id and/or a group id for the mount. Then all
files stored on the mount will be owned by that user/group. You cannot
make it apply ownership rules for more than one user. See `man
smbmount`.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Has anyone mounted /home or /data (random dir containing user data)
> from a CIFS
> mount instead of NFS?  I'm looking at some performance issues with a NAS
> server
> and it appears CIFS is more repsonsive.  The only problem is if I mount
> /home
> with:
>
> //lincoln/home          /home   cifs
> credentials=/root/samba-creds.txt,workgroup=foobar      0       0
>
> and use the creds of root to mount the dirs, then any files I create as
> user "robert" end
> up created owned by user root on the server, and thus user root on the
> clients hosing
> up /home, etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>   Robert


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