Re: smbmount

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Joe Barnett wrote:
>
> > On the local machine, mount the share as type cifs, not smbfs.  I also
> > found I had to add "unix extensions = no" in the [global] section of the
> > server's smb.conf -- 
>
> Why?

Turning off unix extensions on the server is necessary if you want to 
use the uid=nnn,gid=nnn mount options and have it working like smbmount 
did. Otherwise, it behaves more like NFS, matching up client and server 
users.

Paul.