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@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
mount.
domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
username during CIFS session establishment
- uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers
+ forceuid Set the default uid for inodes based on the uid
+ passed in. For mounts to servers
which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
properly configured Samba server, the server provides
the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
@@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
(or gid) in non-numeric form.
+ forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid)
+ uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
+ cifs kernel driver which local user mounted . If the server
+ supports the unix extensions the default uid is
+ not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
+ unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.
gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
this overrides the default mode for file inodes.
@@ -388,8 +395,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
or the CIFS Unix Extensions equivalent and for those
this mount option will have no effect. Exporting cifs mounts
under nfsd requires this mount option on the cifs mount.
+ This is now the default if server supports the
+ required network operation.
noserverino Client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one
- from the server) by default.
+ from the server). These inode numbers will vary after
+ unmount or reboot which can confuse some applications,
+ but not all server filesystems support unique inode
+ numbers.
setuids If the CIFS Unix extensions are negotiated with the server
the client will attempt to set the effective uid and gid of
the local process on newly created files, directories, and