[TriLUG] mount cifs problem

[Brian McCullough]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:42:05AM -0500, Igor Partola wrote:
> >
> 
> Windows Services for UNIX [1] is what I use to set up NFS across my network
> where Windows machines have to be used. It was pretty easy to set up and
> performs well enough. Samba is complex to configure due to the fact that
> user permissions on the system and on the network are assumed to be
> different. NFS is simple: if you are user 1000 on machine A, then it
> assumes you are user 1000 on machine B as well. Now, I a not at all an NFS
> expert, but my point is that my NAS's drives are available on every machine
> in the house with minimal configuration.

But this only holds true if all of your machines are similar enough that user 1000 is consistantly the same person.  This can be true, but only if you are running the same OS and distro ( and possibly version ) on all of your machines, or you manually configure the UID on each machine.


Brian