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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:29:45 +0100
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: adduser ownership of mounted home directory
Message-ID:  <20021221092945.GA14501@nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <000001c2a862$3a422530$6501a8c0@5adam5>
References:  <000001c2a862$3a422530$6501a8c0@5adam5>

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> I am trying to put user's home directories onto a mounted windows
> share (mounting via smbfs).  When I run the adduser script (and
> specify /mountedshare/username as the home directory) it doesn't set
> the ownership of the home directory to the user.  Root still owns the
> folder.  If I add a user to the usual /home directory it works fine.

Do you expect windows to honour the *NIX permisssion flags?
Only ntfs comes close but differs too. So, what you want is not
possible afaik.

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