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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-04-30 22:13:06 +0200
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-04-30 22:13:06 +0200
commit4523cc3044d1bc7fcf3d7fee75d62bc76b8e1abb (patch)
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parent[CIFS] prefixpath mounts to servers supporting posix paths used wrong slash (diff)
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[CIFS] UID/GID override on CIFS mounts to Samba
When CIFS Unix Extensions are negotiated we get the Unix uid and gid owners of the file from the server (on the Unix Query Path Info levels), but if the server's uids don't match the client uid's users were having to disable the Unix Extensions (which turned off features they still wanted). The changeset patch allows users to override uid and/or gid for file/directory owner with a default uid and/or gid specified at mount (as is often done when mounting from Linux cifs client to Windows server). This changeset also displays the uid and gid used by default in /proc/mounts (if applicable). Also cleans up code by adding some of the missing spaces after "if" keywords per-kernel style guidelines (as suggested by Randy Dunlap when he reviewed the patch). Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ Version 1.49
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IPv6 support. Enable ipv6 addresses to be passed on mount (put the ipv6
address after the "ip=" mount option, at least until mount.cifs is fixed to
-handle DNS host to ipv6 name translation).
+handle DNS host to ipv6 name translation). Accept override of uid or gid
+on mount even when Unix Extensions are negotiated (it used to be ignored
+when Unix Extensions were ignored). This allows users to override the
+default uid and gid for files when they are certain that the uids or
+gids on the server do not match those of the client.
Version 1.48
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