Actually, it WASN'T root that mounted the share. It was my user account
"rickj".
Re: NFS, to the best of my knowledge the drive doesn't support it.
And I TRIED using -o uid=1000,gid=100 (the respective user and group IDs
of "rickj") with the smbmount command (AND the mount command) but the
ownership still shows as it did below in my example.
Note: On my system "mount" doesn't recognize "-t cifs" and the man page
on smbfs says the following.
"Mount options for smbfs
Just like nfs, the smbfs implementation expects a binary
argument (a struct smb_mount_data) to the mount system call.
This argument is constructed by smbmount(8) and the current version of
mount (2.12) does not know anything about smbfs."
Best Regards,
Rick J.
Adam Williams wrote:
root is owing the files because the user root mounted the share. if you
want to support unix file ownership in your rsync you should use NFS if
the unit supports that. to change the group ownership, pass the -o
gid=some_group on your mount -t cifs command. you can also use uid= and
to use both, -o uid=someone,gid=somegroup
Rick Johnson wrote:
I have a network accessible (192.168.2.97) Maxtor Shared Storage drive
that I want to use to backup the Linux (Slackware) systems on my
private LAN. I can "smbmount" the drive okay on my Linux systems, but
when I try and use rsync to do a backup rsync fails with a message
about failing to change owner.
Digging a little deeper into the problem I find that the
directories/files on the share all look something like the following
drwxr-xr-x 1 35000 root 0 2008-02-12 15:21 ArchiveOnLinux
drwxrwxrwx 1 35003 root 0 2008-04-22 01:01 Public
-rwxrw-rw- 1 35000 root 1127239 2008-02-28 11:28 gw_rn_vp_grey.pdf
which ISN'T the user (or group) I would have expected it to be mounted
as. (I've done a chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt to allow users to mount the
share and I expected that the share would have the same owner as the
user that mounted it.)
I've also found that I can't change ALL permissions ALL the time on
the share's directories and files. I can remove group and world
privileges from a file (which are remembered after a umount and
remount) but I cannot restore them (even as root). Only the owner
privileges are consistently changeable.
Basically, ALL I want to do is to be able to use the drive as a backup
that will maintain the same permissions, user, group, etc., as the
original files AND I want the files visible from both my Linux AND
Windows systems (because I need to use Nero on a Windows machine to do
the backups). Can someone help me figure out how to do this correctly?
Thanks,
Rick Johnson
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