Samba, cifs, and local/remote uids/gids



What's conventional wisdom regarding uids and gids of users on Samba
servers and on [Linux] client machines wishing to connect to CIFS shares
on that server?

Options seem to be:

1) Try to synchronise allocation of uid and gid between client and server
(e.g. user foo gets same numeric IDs on both).

2) Force 'local' ownership of remote mounts through the use of uid= and
gid= params.

The former seems a bit of an admin headache. The latter seems a lot
more flexible (and is what I've always done in the past), but the docs say
that uid= and gid= are ignored for CIFS mounts (even though observation
seems to suggest otherwise, but in theory option 2 will stop working
sometime for cifs mounts).

Just curious what others are doing...

cheers

Jules

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