problem with ownership of files on Samba share

[Shlomo Solomon]

Since moving from Mageia5 to Kubuntu 18.04 I have an annoying problem.

I have a Raspberry PI  file server running Samba and sharing PI-PUBLIC.
Files are created (and owned) by various users. 

This is a mixed Linux and Windows network. 
All Linux computers on the network (including the PI) have the same
users and UIDs, to prevent confusion about file ownership.
In the PI-PUBLIC section of smb.conf on the PI, all the relevant users
are listed as valid users = 

In Mageia I could mount the share with either of the
following /etc/fstab entries (note that pi is defined in /etc/hosts): 

//pi/PI-PUBLIC  /mnt/PI-PUBLIC  cifs
username=solomon,password=mypassword,rw,user 0 0 

//pi/PI-PUBLIC /mnt/PI-PUBLIC cifs
user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.pi.solomon 0 0

But in Kubuntu, all the files "seem" to be owned by the wrong user.
If I access /mnt/PI-PUBLIC in Dolphin, all the files "seem" to be owned
by root.
If I access smb://solomon@pi/PI-PUBLIC/  then all the files "seem" to
be owned by solomon.



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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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