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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 080c5eba112b..93fe3594274f 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -257,13 +257,19 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: mount. domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the username during CIFS session establishment - uid If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default uid for inodes. For mounts to - servers which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such - as a properly configured Samba server, the server provides - the uid, gid and mode. For servers which do not support - the Unix extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on - lookup of existing files is the uid (gid) of the person + uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers + which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a + properly configured Samba server, the server provides + the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be + specified unless the server and clients uid and gid + numbering differ. If the server and client are in the + same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and + the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid + and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid + and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount. + For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix + extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup + of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid=" (gid) mount option is specified. For the uid (gid) of newly @@ -281,8 +287,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid (or gid) in non-numberic form. - gid If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default gid for inodes. + gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above). file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server this overrides the default mode for file inodes. dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server |