On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:26 +1000, Nick Bryant wrote: > > You can't have user permissions on 'foreign' file systems - all files > > and folders are owned by whomever mounts it. > > > > That explains the error then :) > > > You can download for free - Microsoft's SFU (Services for Unix) and > > create NFS exports from the NAS Appliance and mount them on the > > Linux/Unix system and share them but be prepared for some latency (I > > sort of gave up on this concept myself). You could also create a 'DFS' > > tree that has the 'base' on the Linux server and the subtrees on the NAS > > appliance. > > Ok did this. Got NFS working on it... problem is that even though it doesn't > bork with an error it still won't let me change the ownership. I think I > know why but I don't know how to do a no_root_squash export on a W2k3 box of > doom, and I won't go there on this list. ---- If I recall correctly, there was a check box on SFU when you create/edit the nfs exports to 'allow root access' - I also use the username mapping to map root <-> Administrator so Windows considers them to be one and the same. ---- > > > > > Of course there is no reason that you can't direct Samba to create > > Windows Users 'HOMES' share directly on/from the NAS appliance itself > > and that is likely the best/fastest way to do it. Since the NAS Server > > is 'joined' to the domain, it will have all the user accounts and can > > happily deal with the ACL's for the home share. > > It seems a little more complex but sounds like it would be the way forwards. > Do you have any more info on exactly how about you create a user with a > non-local fs home dir? ---- If you use usermgr.exe or the pdbedit command, you can put in the paths for their home and profile directories individually... \\NAS\USERS\craig \\NAS\PROFILES\craig man pdbedit ---- > > > > > With Samba 3.0.x and LDAP or tdbsam backend, you can specify a unique > > home and profile directory for each user and put them on different > > servers if you wish. > > > > It's running on samba 3 with tdb backend... ---- I tend to use LDAP and have some ability to edit ldif files directly which isn't an option with tdb. Craig