Hi,
I currently use Samba server as a PDC on a centos 3.5 box for a bunch of XP
clients which works perfectly.</centos plug>
I want to mount a share on a NAS box we have kicking about and use that
share to put all the users home dirs in. Sadly my NAS box is a Windows 2003
server appliance (although, to be fair - it does the job).
So I create a share on the NAS box, create a user on the Samba server who I
then assign write permissions on the newly created share (yes, the NAS is a
domain member) and then put the NAS share's details into the Samba server's
/etc/fstab like so:
\\nasboxen\newshare /mnt/userhomes smbfs auto,credentials=/etc/samba/afile
0 0
mount -a /mnt/syd01-test/
and it mounts perfectly:
[root@lemon mnt]# mount
[snip]
//nasboxen/newshare on /mnt/userhomes type smbfs (0)
Now the problem comes when I want to put a userdir in there because when I
try and set the ownership:
[root@lemon mnt]# chown nick testing
chown: changing ownership of `testing': Operation not permitted
I presume this is because it's a smb filesystem and it doesn't support unix
ownership flags. So the question is... can it be done?
Cheers,
Nick
