cifs replacing smbfs - how to set up?

[Herouth Maoz]

Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org>:

> FWIW, I see similar effects when the server is Windows. I have a
> different setup, I run VMware VMs on my work laptop, and I mount a
> share on the host (WinXP 64 bit) in Linux VM (CentOS 5.3). After
> initial hiccups I worked my way through the various "security" tabs in
> the share's "Properties" window, and disabled the host's firewall
> (after a nod from the company's sysadmin). After that what I need to
> do works just fine, but when I read your posting I tried to touch a
> couple of files and copy one over the other (had not had a need to do
> it before) - and I saw effects similar to what you describe ("can't
> modify owner", "can't modify time", etc.).

Interesting, because my mount to the office file server (windows)  
actually works well, no problems copying or touching or anything.  
Could be a different version of windows.


> I suspect the culprit maybe CIFS ACLs (I had added the user who mounts
> the share to the list and had given him "full access") and/or their
> mapping to POSIX ACLs. I played a bit with getfacl/setfacl but got
> nowhere. Maybe some googling for CIFS ACLs will help.

I'll try that, thanks.

Herouth