Neal Becker wrote:
I was hoping to switch from nfs to cifs on my linux systems to get away from
the need to sync uid/gid. I am surprised to find:
uid=arg
sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be
specified as either a username or a numeric uid. This parameter is ignored
when the target server supports the CIFS Unix extensions.
I don't understand why. I thought getting away from this obsolete model
(needed to sync + identify users on different systems by uid) was a feature
of samba.
This is seen as a feature rather than a bug (i.e. making CIFS work like
NFS).
Is there a workaround?
These are all modern linux systems (clients and servers).
On the samba server, put in smb.conf:
# Turn off unix extensions so that the
# uid= and gid= options will work on clients
unix extensions = no
Paul.
