Subject: Re: rights to windows share
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 14:19:56 AKST
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Tim Jordan, DOL&WD Network Services wrote:
>
> Is it possible to change rights or ownership of a windows share that
> root has mounted under my home directory?
>
> I tried chown & chmod as root and I'm told that this is not permitted.
>
> I don't want to run as root just to save data to my windows directory on
> our network.
> Any suggestions?
As I mentioned in my previous post, using the uid/gid options for mount will
set the owner and group of the files in the file system. My example allows my
user account to do all the I/O without root privileges.
--Arthur Corliss
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