On Thursday 01 March 2007 05:59, Russell Jones wrote:
> John Andersen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
> >> Doesn't it have trouble with GIDs/UIDs in that it maps them all to one?
> >
> > Not necessarily.
> >
> > It attempts to map them properly based on login id
> > if both ends support this.
> >
> > If on the other hand you want the samba server to be taking care of
> > permissions (so as not to put you back into the nfs limitations box) you
> > have to tell the cifs client explicitly not to attempt to manage
> > permissions.
> >
> > Since most people set up samba to manage permissions for windows
> > machines, they are usually in good position to handle those same shares
> > to linux machines.
>
> Hm. Don't quite follow you. What does Samba map from and to? Linux
> accounts, either in /etc/passwd et al or LDAP/Kerberos? Samba has its
> own user database too, doesn't it? Is it necessary to set that up
> separately, or can you just use paswd/LDAP accounts directly?
>
> The other potentially important issue, IIRC, is that one may need to
> allow extended file system attributes and ACLs to map to windows ACLs.
> Perhaps a default in SuSE? I don't think NFS allows this.
Thanks for all of the info, I figured it out and all is fine, thanks again for
jogging my old memory.
Mike
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