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 >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
