[TriLUG] mount cifs problem

[Igor Partola]

Right. In my case that is true: I am user 1000 on all machines. On Windows,
you have to put in the UID for the user so that's also not a problem (all
Windows users access the NFS shares as me).

If your family or office is large enough, you should set up a more
sophisticated auth mechanism than local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.
Then again, if you have many different users accessing the NAS and you need
them to do so as their own users on your network, Samba would probably need
to be set up with some kind of centralized auth system as well.

My main point is that for my family of two with a limited number of
machines and in a trusted environment, having a short /etc/exports file is
easier than Samba's 1000 line config.

Igor

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>