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

[Matt Rideout]

All files in a given smb mount will show up as owned by a single user, 
so you'll need to create a separate SMB mount for each home directory.

I once ran into a UML bug that required switching from NFS to SMB for 
parts of /home, and ended up writing a login script to handle it. The 
script used the username of the person logging in to generate the right 
SMB path, then ran smbmount to mount their home directory. /home was 
still mounted as NFS underneath.

Robert L. Harris wrote, On 10/25/2009 03:08 PM:
>    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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