[plug] mounting home directories

[Joel Johnson]

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> In message <41198041.3010306 at smlintl.com.au>
> on Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:13AM +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> > Yeah you are right the 508 is marc-w on the server.  The uid on my
> > computer is 500.
>
> Okay, that is the entire crux of the problem. But I don't know enough
> about Samba to tell you of the best way to overcome this. Normally, in a
> closed workplace environment, you'd aim during initial system
> configuration to have marc-w/508 on all computers (or marc-w/500) --
> pick one or the other. However, to overcome the problem on a
> client-by-client basis, you may be able to enforce some kind of
> automatic "mapping" (as is often available with NFS). Note: I do not
> recommend that you change the numeric ID on your laptop at this stage,
> as you could just end up locking yourself out of things (you would need
> to remember to update your file permissions in the necessary fashion,
> and it could get very confusing if you have processes currently running
> under UID 500). Hopefully, someone else will advise you about the
> procedural details of your options.
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Couldn't the cause be that the account 'marc-w' can't see the servers'
passwd and groups files? It shouldn't matter what his local UID is -
shouldn't  the remote file system be saying who the owner and group are?

Joel