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

[Shlomo Solomon]

solomon at shlomo1:~$ apt-cache policy cifs-utils
cifs-utils:
  Installed: 2:6.8-1
  Candidate: 2:6.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 2:6.8-1 500
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64
Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:11:05 +0300
Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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