Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["david rankin" <drankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Kevanf1" <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>
> On 03/05/06, James D. Parra <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to have smb mounts show who the actually file owners are
> > > instead of having all files appearing to be owned by user root?
> > >
> > Windows file systems do not have the concept of owner, group, and others 
> > as
> > well as rwx, etc.
> > The file attributes under Windows are quite different.
> >
> >
> > Well that is interesting, because from a windows box it correctly 
> > displays
> > the owner of the file (under Properties/Security tab). The smb export is 
> > on
> > a Linux server. The files were created from the Linux box over the smb 
> > mount
> > hosted on a Linux server. From a windows box, the files show the actual
> > owner of the files. The Linux server also show the actual owner, while 
> > the
> > Linux client shows the files being owned by root. It is very odd.  There
> > must be a way to mount an smb mount point and have it show the true 
> > owners
> > of the files.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > ~James
>
> In Windows (NTFS systems) it's not so much 'owner, group and other'
> more a case of actual accessibility.  There is a system of groups in
> the NTFS system but they are too free with given permissions.  Unlike
> Linux (and Unix) where one user can be given certain access rights to
> a specific area quite easily, in NTFS that user tends to be given a
> load more access unintentionally.  Access that is not needed and is
> potentially dangerous.  Which is why the NTFS system is nowhere near
> as secure as the Linux/Unix system.

Dunno if this will help, but man smbmount:

SYNOPSIS
      smbmount {service} {mount-point} [-o options]

OPTIONS
      username=<arg>
             specifies the username to connect as. If this is not given, 
then
             the  environment  variable   USER  is used. This option can 
also
             take the form "user%password" or "user/workgroup" or 
"user/work-
             group%password" to allow the password and workgroup to be 
speci-
             fied as part of the username.

IIRC smbmount, mounts the windows share as the user specified, otherwise it 
uses the environment variable $USER. If the smbmount command is issued as 
root then all files on the mounted share are shown as being owned by 
root:root. I don't know for certian, but I don't think you can smbmount a 
windows share on a linux box and then use something like ls -al to determine 
the windows owner of the file. If somebody else knows different, please feel 
free to enlighten me without flames....

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