NFS vs SMB and umasks

Bob George plug@bobspc.dhs.org
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:38:46 -0700


"Kurt Granroth" <kurt@granroth.org> wrote:
> [...]
> Now my first inclination is to use NFS since that is the gold standard
> for distributed filesystems in Unix.  Unfortunately, I can't figure
> out how to force a particular umask, dmask, or user on the files.
> Some users on some of my systems are capable of writing files that
> can't be accessed by other users on other systems.

I'm no NFS expert, but would all_squash (man exports) do the trick, probably
along with anonuid and anongid?

umask perhaps in the mount command used.

- Bob