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  From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:06:10 +0930 (CST)

Re: Samba client for Linux

On Tue, 28 May 2002, James Leone wrote:

> It is guest only access. I have no passwords.
> 
> I had a script in init.d, and I was sucessful in mounting the shares. 
> However, because they are mounted before I log in as james, they are 
> designated as being owned by root. So I can't save anything from my 
> Linux workstation into the samba share when logged in as a regular user.

Yes, this is the problem with smbfs as it stands. Steve French of IBM is 
writing a UNIX client that will allow UIDs and GIDs to be communicated to 
the server, thus preserving the correct ownership.

However, that client is still under development, and NFS is the better 
way to do this stuff for UNIX to UNIX (Linux to Linux) systems.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, 
sharpe@ethereal.com

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