[vox-tech] Dealing with different UIDs and GIDs

Jan W jcwynholds at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 15 10:26:44 PST 2005


Richard:

Does the user that Samba runs under (I think it's 'nobody' by default)
have permission to read the mountpoint directory?

I would add the samba user (the UID that samba runs as) to the group
that can read (or write to) the directories.  Or am I missing something
else?

-HTHO

jan


--- Richard Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:

> Now, if I'm logged in to the server, I can cd to the mountpoint just
> fine and 
> browse around.  However, I can't cd to it from the command line on my
> own 
> Linux box, and I certainly can't see it through Windows.
> 
> I suspect I'm missing something very simple.  Any ideas, anyone?
> 
> -- 
> Richard S. Crawford
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