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  From: James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 21:30:27 -0700

Re: Samba client for Linux

Thanks for letting me know.   :-)

:-)

James Leone




Richard Sharpe wrote:

>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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