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

[Shay Gover]

I think that in each case diffrent libraries are envolved. In the second
case it's cifs (what version?).

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 09:57 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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