[plug] mounting home directories

Marc Wiriadisastra marc-w at smlintl.com.au
Wed Aug 11 13:12:29 WST 2004



Ian Kent wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, James Devenish wrote:
>
>  
>
>>In message <00d201c47f4d$a6c3ddc0$b501a8c0 at joelj>
>>on Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:48:15AM +0800, Joel Johnson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>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?
>>>      
>>>
>>Ah, a warning: my assumption has been that Samba is (at least by
>>default) handling these things in an NFS-like fashion.
>>    
>>
>
>Why is Samba involved here?
>
>It looked like the question related to Fedora <-> Fedora communication.
>Is that actually the case?
>
>  
>
Yeah that is correct.  I don't know of another way to deal with the 
situation and I'm used to samba.  Thats the only reason I'm using it.

TIA

Marc

>Ian
>
>_______________________________________________
>PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
>Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
>
>  
>



More information about the plug mailing list