Re: sharing home directories for UML's

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com>]

Benedict Verheyen schreef:
> Karl E. Jorgensen schreef:
> <snip>
> > > Then i'm stuck with either samba or nfs.
> >
> > They should work. Or perhaps a clustered file system that allows the 
> > same disk to be mounted read-write simultaneously by multiple hosts. 
> > Such a disk could be located on the underlying host (=more ubd devices 
> > on the uml linux command line) or remotely using network block devices.
> >
> > I *think* that the oracle clustered filesystem would do the trick, 
> > although it is more geared towards holding oracle databases.  One 
> > problem though: The kernel in the user-mode-linux package has not got 
> > ocfs2 enabled, so you'll need to recompile the package, but it 
> > *should* work...

I finally got round to testing the sharing via Samba.

I made an uml with samba & ldap so all the user & group id's over the
uml's are the same.

I then copied /home to the uml running samba and shared the home 
directories.
I can then mount home in another uml like this:
smbmount //192.168.1.26/homes /home -o credentials=/root/.credentials

However, the file and directory owner is always root instead of the user
For instance my home directory on the uml containing the home directories:
  drwxr-xr-x 11 benedict benedict 4096 2007-06-07 02:10 benedict

When i mount /home it in another uml:
  drwxr-xr-x  1 root root    0 2007-06-07 02:10 benedict

Is there a way to get the proper user & group name?
If not, what other ways (except the oracle file system) could i use to 
accomplish this?

Thanks,
Benedict

Excerpt from my smb.conf
[homes]
   comment = User homes
   path = /home/%U
   browsable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0700
   directory mask = 0700

[homedirs]
   comment = Home Directories
   #path = /home/%U
   path = /home
   #browseable = no
   browsable = yes
   writable = yes
   ;create mask = 0700
   ;directory mask = 0700
   create mask = 0775
   directory mask = 0775
   strict locking = no
   #security mask = 0775
   public = yes
   write list = benedict root