samba - Jan 2008 - mount read/write ntfs via samba

Until now, we've been using samba to push out unix files to windows users.
With
Security = domain, this works perfectly. Now we'd like to go the other way
ie mount
on the linux side our PC files. Using

mount -t smbfs -username=administrator //pc-server/users /PCuser

works but all files appear to be owned by root so users can't  write to
their own files.

I can add dmask=777, fmask=666 but then anyone can overwrite anything.

I was thinking of perhaps having the users mount the partition themselves eg
add to sudoers
    smith ALL=/bin/mount

and then having smith
  mkdir ~/mypcfiles
mount -t smbfs -username=smith //pc-server/user/smith ~/mypcfiles

but smith gets "tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified
an invalid share name)"

Does the share need to be in some other format? Is the above a reasonable
way to go? (I imagine I should
probably further limit what smith can mount in sudo)  or is there perhaps a
better way to do this using some
other UID mapping technique such as create a credentials file (how does one
populate it?)

Thanks

mashtin.bakir@gmail.com wrote:
> ... Now we'd like to go the other way
> ie mount
> on the linux side our PC files. Using
>
> mount -t smbfs -username=administrator //pc-server/users /PCuser
>
> works but all files appear to be owned by root so users can't  write to
> their own files.
>
> ...
Assuming that you have matching UID's across the servers (infact even if 
you don't) you should use CIFS. With CIFS you will be able to make use 
of the unix extensions so files will have the same owner and permissions 
on the client as they do on the server (this is where the matching UIDs 
comes in). SMB is pretty much depreciated so even if you can't or won't 
use the unix extensions, you should still use CIFS.

*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh@jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh@jaswin.com.au>