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