Samba problems

Hi,

I have a setup with a server running Samba which I can access from my
SUSE 9.2 setup and map various drives, including a private drive for a user.
Now with SUSE 9.3 the system lets me map the drives using the
username/password set up in smbpasswd but the access permissions for the
drive are all set as root:root instead of user:group.
I am probably being very simple here, but can someone tell what is different
about the client or the default setup in 9.3 which is doing this?

TIA
Iain

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:36:53 GMT
Tallis <feedback@extro.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a setup with a server running Samba which I can access from my
> SUSE 9.2 setup and map various drives, including a private drive for
> a user. Now with SUSE 9.3 the system lets me map the drives using the
> username/password set up in smbpasswd but the access permissions for
> the drive are all set as root:root instead of user:group.
> I am probably being very simple here, but can someone tell what is
> different about the client or the default setup in 9.3 which is doing
> this?
>

Have you checked your /etc/fstab file? What are the settings on the
affected partitions?


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Kevin Nathan wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:36:53 GMT
> Tallis <feedback@extro.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have a setup with a server running Samba which I can access from my
>> SUSE 9.2 setup and map various drives, including a private drive for
>> a user. Now with SUSE 9.3 the system lets me map the drives using the
>> username/password set up in smbpasswd but the access permissions for
>> the drive are all set as root:root instead of user:group.
>> I am probably being very simple here, but can someone tell what is
>> different about the client or the default setup in 9.3 which is doing
>> this?
>>
>
> Have you checked your /etc/fstab file? What are the settings on the
> affected partitions?
>
>
The shares are mounted with an smbfstab file in the /etc/samba directory.
There are no options listed in this file, either in the original 9.2 setup
(which works) or the 9.3 setup (which doesn't).
In the new smb.conf file there are the lines:
idmap gid = 10000-20000
idmap uid = 10000-20000
They are new to me! Is this my problem?

Iain

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:48:14 GMT
Tallis <feedback@extro.co.uk> wrote:

> Kevin Nathan wrote:
>
> >
> > Have you checked your /etc/fstab file? What are the settings on the
> > affected partitions?
> >
> >
> The shares are mounted with an smbfstab file in the /etc/samba
> directory. There are no options listed in this file, either in the
> original 9.2 setup (which works) or the 9.3 setup (which doesn't).
> In the new smb.conf file there are the lines:
> idmap gid = 10000-20000
> idmap uid = 10000-20000
> They are new to me! Is this my problem?
>

It could be, but I'd wait for someone with more recent Samba experience
than I have -- it's been several years since I've used Samba . . .


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