Problem with samba files ownership

mike mike at bristolreccc.co.uk
Mon Jan 10 15:19:29 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:41 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:40 +0000, mike wrote:
> > I have a file-server running FC3, which is running in share mode (XP
> > home machines)
> > 
> > I can mount shares and write files except for one major problem - all
> > files are created with owner/group of nobody. This applies on bioth XP
> > and FC3 machines. The same problem applies whether using smb or cifs
> > 
> > This causes problems especially sending mail
> > 
> > Any idea what is wrong?
> 
> I'd guess that your authentication fails and thus the user gets mapped
> to the guest account which gets mapped nobody IIRC.
> 
> Nils
> --

just tested and with selinux turned off permissions are right ie: they
are that of the user

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