UID instead of users name in a mounted samba share

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Jul 1 22:43:16 UTC 2013


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On 07/01/2013 05:07 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> This morning at office I was listing files in a terminal inside a
> samba share from my networked server and surprise folder was
> identified inside run/user/1000/gvfs instead of
> run/user/antonio/gvfs (of course antonio has UID 1000). Is it
> correct???

Why would it not be? The purpose of /run/user/UID here is to avoid the
kernel needing to do a username lookup to locate the directory when it
already has the UID (which is all it really needs to perform the
mapping operations).

As long as the UID matches up, what's the problem?
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