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

[Richard Bronosky]

I've had similar problems mount a local HFS+ formatted drive. Nothing
I could do would ever get the files on the drive to be owned by my
user. Everything is user 99.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:17 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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