Hi Jean-Pierre,

thanks for your answer and for copying it to the Tuxera forum, which seems to 
work now for me :-) .
So I think, it's better to continue the discussion there: 
http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30639&start=0&sid=dbc618519604d4134a9a5b9cbf5a5641

-Ulf


Am 31.03.2014 21:24, schrieb Jean-Pierre André:
> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently registered in your forum.
>>
>> I'm wondering, that my first posted new Topic doesn't show up in the list. 
>> So to not loose my post,
>> I'll send it here as a duplicate:
>>
>> ===========================================================
>> Hi,
>>
>> take this example:
>> [code]   file "$RWX9LVZ" has no mapped owner
>> By which Linux login should this file be owned ?
>> Enter uid of login, or just press "enter" if this file
>> does not belong to a user, or you do not known to whom
>>
>> User :[/code]
>> I was not able to find this file with Windows_7 Explorer search on my C: 
>> partition, so how should I
>> know to what user I should match this file?
>
> Most likely a file named "$RWX9LVZ" is not really
> owned by a user. Possibly a temporary file being
> downloaded (or uncompressed, or whatever). It is
> even probably a hidden one if you cannot find it
> through Explorer.
>
> As a consequence, there is probably no point trying
> to assign it to a user also defined on Linux.
>
>> So I think, it would be better if the usermap tool would print the full 
>> path, as a similar problem
>> occurs, if there is taken a file name which has several duplicates in 
>> different locations with
>> different ownership.
>
> Ok, this would help.
>
> The problem is that usermap scans the partition and
> finds files (such as system or package files) whose
> owners are not real candidates for Linux accounts.
>
>> Another problem, also with the "Undecided :" SIDs. How do I get info, which 
>> SID is assigned to which
>> user/group name?
>
> It is ofter easier to get each Windows user to create
> on Windows a file in his/her home directory, then use
> secaudit with option -u to display the owner and group
> SID of the files, then concatenate the outputs and set
> the matching uid and gid :
>
> On Windows :
>    secaudit -u sample-file
> On Linux, on a mounted partition
>    ntfs-3g.secaudit -u sample-file
> On Linux, on an unmounted partition
>    sudo ntfs-3g.secaudit -u /dev/partition sample-file
>
> Files which are not created by users generally do not
> need to be assigned to Linux users. They just appear
> to be owned by root. You probably may ignore undecided
> SIDs if all your real users are mapped.
>
> Note : for the mapping to be possible, the grouping of
> users must be the same in Windows and Linux.
> By default Windows 7 puts all the users in the same
> group, and Windows 8 puts each user in his own group.
>
> Regards
>
> Jean-Pierre
>
>> Cheers, Ulf
>>
>>
>
>


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