[NCSA-discuss] number for nobody,nogroup

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> 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.

replying to myself. I've found that I can write from the 
windows machines to the samba shares shared from the linux 
machine if on the samba server nobody=65534. The files 
arrive owned by nobody:user

Joe

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