SOLVED but WHY? (was Re: problem with ownership of files on Samba share)

[Shlomo Solomon]

Answering my own post with a solution, but I don't know WHY this works.

I discovered that if I access   fish://pi/media/PUBLIC/  in Dolphin the
file ownerships are shown correctly.

Can anyone tell me why this works when the following 2 don't?

> 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.






On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:58:06 +0300
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> 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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