From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 1:31: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D8537B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.120.160.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9044043EDC for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from dick by nagual.st with local (Exim 3.35 (Debian)) id 18Pfx3-0003mL-00 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:29:45 +0100 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:29:45 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: adduser ownership of mounted home directory Message-ID: <20021221092945.GA14501@nagual.st> References: <000001c2a862$3a422530$6501a8c0@5adam5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c2a862$3a422530$6501a8c0@5adam5> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: dick hoogendijk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am trying to put user's home directories onto a mounted windows > share (mounting via smbfs). When I run the adduser script (and > specify /mountedshare/username as the home directory) it doesn't set > the ownership of the home directory to the user. Root still owns the > folder. If I add a user to the usual /home directory it works fine. Do you expect windows to honour the *NIX permisssion flags? Only ntfs comes close but differs too. So, what you want is not possible afaik. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message