[NCSA-discuss] number for nobody,nogroup

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

My machines at home have different nobody,nogroup numbers. 
I have

99,99
65534,65534 (2^16-2)
-2,-2 (which winds up being 2^32-2)

Previously I've only ever used 2^16-2.

Google seems to think that all of them are OK.

The directories owned by nobody,nogroup are smb exported to 
windows machines. There is the minor nuisance of synching 
between the smb servers, when updates files appear with the 
wrong ownership numbers.

I've lost the ability to write to these smb exported 
directories from with windows machines (although how long 
ago I don't know - I mainly read from the directories) and 
am wondering what number windows is expecting for the 
ownership of the smb exported directories.

Presumably samba can export the files with any ownership it 
likes, however I'm not looking forward to spelunking the 
samba config file manual again.

Thanks 
Joe

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