samba share mounted using wrong uid and/or permissions
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I'm trying to back up a disk image to a samba server. Clonezilla gets the share mounted, and but cannot write to it. From a shell I can verify that the mount worked and that files on the mount can be read, but not written.
After a bit of mucking about, I found that this is because the cifs mount is being done with default options (other than the user name), and so the mount is done with uid=0, gid=0, file_mode=0755, and dir_mode=0755. However, clonezilla is apparently running as user (uid=1000), so it is using the world permissions (the last 5 in 0755), which disallows read.
Shouldn't the default menuing interface try to set up the mount with uid=1000 and gid=1000, or else set file_mode=0777 and dir_mode=0777? If I do the mount manually with uid=1000 everything works fine.
When Clonezilla live mounts the CIFS server, it actually passes the option about username for the server, i.e.
-o user=$USERNAME
Therefore the mapping is OK. Your case is weird because you are the 1st to report this, and our use cases here all work.
Steven.