[NCSA-discuss] number for nobody,nogroup

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> 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

oops. I had nobody in the users group. I moved nobody to 
nogroup and still the files are written by nobody.users 
(rather than nobody.nogroup). Don't know what this is about 
(presumably it's all in smb.conf), but at least I can write 
to directories again.

Joe

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