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

[Bob Ebbitt]

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but it allowed me to
permanently mount a CIFS drive under my personal home folder. I found the
directions in Ubuntus documentation at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

Bob Ebbitt

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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