Samba chown Operation not permitted

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Posted by ti_nhatrang, 05-22-2007, 04:04 AM
Hi guys, I'm currently running SAMBA on one my linux servers, and wanting to connect to it from another linux server. 1. Do I need to install SAMBA on the connecting server (client-side)? 2. I can see/mount the SAMBA folder just fine, I can delete,make,etc. The only thing I can't do on the client side is change ownership of a file or folder... even if I'm logged in as root. please help, and thank you in advance.
Posted by SparkSupport, 05-22-2007, 07:20 AM
You need only "samba-client", installed on the client side, even if you are going to use the default command "mount -t smbfs" it is also calling the same program 'smbmount' itself. And regarding the file-ownership, seems it won't work from a samba client-side-setup...
Posted by ti_nhatrang, 05-22-2007, 07:27 AM
I created the file and directory fine from the client, but I can't chown it...
Posted by SparkSupport, 05-22-2007, 08:13 PM
The files and directories contained in the mounted smbfs filesystem will work just like any others, except for limitations imposed by the nature of SMB networking. For example, not even the superuser can perform the operation:because SMB shares do not intrinsically support the idea of ownership. ------- Refer : http://www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch05.html Last edited by SparkSupport; 05-22-2007 at 08:18 PM.

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