On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011 20:28:13 John Andersen wrote:
On 10/11/2011 11:59 PM, lynn wrote:
Hi. Thanks. As you say, 'somelinuxuser' is better than root but my client boxes do not have any users on them.
Huh? That makes no sense at all. How can you have no users defined on a client box and at the same time complain that things are mounted root:root?
With no users defined, what possible other choice would there be.
I want any user to be able to log in on any client on my lan and see and create their own files using their own permissions no matter which client box they sit at. That's one of the good points in having a server isn't it? Everything is centralised. Lan users are defined only on the server. With nfs and nis this just works: nfs mounts /home from the server as /home on the client. They authenticate using nis and all files they create are owened user:group as defined on the server. It's as if they were using the client box as a local user. It's an option you have for installing a client during the yast setup. What I thought was that I could replace nfs with cifs and nis with ldap. Ldap is working (Thank gad for yast. Don't try installing it without!). My only problem in implementing the change is the cifs user:group issue. So, any ideas anyone? What options do I need on the cifs mount to allow file creation as user:group? This has so far drawn a blank on the samba list too so I'm thinking that maybe it's not possible. But surely. . . Saludos Cheers, Lynn x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org