Re: Windows NFS Services, Unix, and Linux

From: Steve (sschmeg_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:13:05 GMT

Thanks for the info and responses. I may have found a solution.
In Linux if I mount it using "mount -o uid=xx, gid=xx //Server/Share /Path"
where the uid and gid is logged in users group and user id # then it does
seem to work. Our user name mapping is extremely simple in the first place,
so I am nearly certain it is all correct, but I wonder if there is an issue
passing or accepting the user info between Linux and Windows at least. I
will have to try a similar thing on our Unix and see what happens.

"Matt Payton" <mattpayton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:93lf2d.34h.ln@kelso.taternuts.home...
> I ran into something similar when I was playing with Windows Services for
> Unix about a year ago. I did get it resolved, but honestly I don't
> remember exactly what the solution was...While there are some kind of cool
> things with WSU, there was no compelling reason ( for us ) to keep using
> it.
>
> But, I do remember there was some useful info in the newsgroup/forum. I'd
> check the link here :
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/support/default.asp
> or see if your news server carries
> microsoft.public.servicesforunix.general

> Steve wrote:
>> We have a Windows NT server with Microsoft's Services for Unix installed.
>> It
>> was apparently easy to setup on the Windows side, but a Unix user had a
>> lot
>> of trouble mounting it and having read/write permissions on it. The
>> Windows
>> side didn't change and somehow the user resolved their end and is able to
>> mount it and have read/write access. We tried to setup a Fedora Core3 to
>> mount this same share and it mounts and provides read-only access. We're
>> not
>> completely sure the issue lies on the Linux/Unix side, but we've set it
>> all
>> up to mirror the working Unix setup. No luck though. Graphically, the
>> mount
>> is showing full permissions, but access is denied when writing, deleting,
>> etc.

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