Map uid/gid of SMB share to local account?

[Ryan Johnson]

On 15/06/2012 4:02 PM, René Berber wrote:
> On 6/15/2012 2:41 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
>> When using cygwin to access a samba share residing on a linux host, I
>> get things like the following:
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 13K Sep 7 2010 foo
>>> drwxr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 0 Apr 26 2009 bar/
>>
>> Logging into the box directly shows this instead:
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ryanjohn ryangrp 13108 2010-09-07 05:39 foo
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 ryanjohn ryangrp 4 2009-04-26 15:24 bar/
>> The corresponding uid/gid are 2680/10099.
>>
>> The main annoyance is that everything is read-only, even though I own
>> the files. I remember a long time ago being able to mount a samba share
>> under linux and telling it what uid/gid to use for unrecognized owners,
>> but I can't remember the magic incantation or find it on Google; plus,
>> I'm not sure it would work in cygwin anyway, since the mount utilities
>> are totally different.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> Read the manual / help :
>
> $ mkpasswd --help
> ...
>    -U,--unix userlist      additionally print UNIX users when using -l 
> or -L
>                            on a UNIX Samba server
> ...
`mkpasswd` and `mkpasswd -l -U0-20000' produce the same output (neither 
includes the SMB user); the drive is mapped in Windows as z: and I can 
also access it directly from the cygwin prompt.

>
> same for SAMBA/CIFS, /usr/lib/smb.conf :
>
> guest account = nobody
>
Just to be clear, that's supposed to be on my cygwin (guest) side? I 
thought that file controlled the server's behavior... and I don't have 
admin rights on the server side.

Ryan


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