Re: [opensuse] rights on mounted drives James Pifer wrote:
>> This sounds like a GUID, UID mapping issue on the samba side, probably
>> same on NFS side. Different Linux distros may be assigning different
>> UID,GUIDs to usernames. It is the former rights are granted on, not the
>> names.
>>
>> (Suitably edited /etc/fstab and the smb.conf files might be of help here).
>>     
>
> I think you're right. I can map to a windows machine's shares using cifs
> and do anything I want. Any suggestions on fixing either of them? I've
> tried the NFS side? I've looked at man and tried setting anongid and
> anonuid, but it had no affect. 
>
> On my opensuse machine my uid is 1000. On the fedora machine my uid is
> 500. 
>   

There's your answer. Make the userids the same - that's standard procedure.

Joe


