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I have linux user lUser (uid=123) that is in the group lGroup (guid=145). I have windows user wUser that has full access to the share. I want to automount that share on linux machine and give lUser full access to that directory. I've edited /etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.2/WinShare /home/root/WinShare cifs username=wUser,password=Password,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=123,gid=145 0 0

I am doing sudo mount -a and this folder is still owned by root.

Then I created users on both machines with the same name and password. After that I added following line to the fstab

//192.168.1.2/WinShare /home/user/WinShare cifs iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

It is still mounted as root

I've also tried to do:

//192.168.1.2/WinShare /home/user/WinShare ntfs-3g users,permissions,auto 0 0

still the same ...

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As per mount.cifs documentation, the uid and gid parameters only work when the server does not support UNIX extensions. The forceuid and forcegid parameters prevent this behavior. If you connect to a NAS, it might use Samba too.

You can also specify UID and GID by using the actual user/group name.

There’s also this Ubuntu bug, perhaps it’s still relevant.

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  • I've created user with the same name and password on the both machines and then trying to add following line: //192.168.1.2/WinShare /home/user/WinShare cifs iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 and still it is mounted as root
    – Dmitrij Kultasev
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 9:49
  • I've edited the question, added 1 more option I've tried
    – Dmitrij Kultasev
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 10:06
  • I was able to change ownership from root to my current user, but not to the one I needed....
    – Dmitrij Kultasev
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 14:29
  • Again: Did you try forceuid? This is a yes/no question.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 17:22
  • yes. I was able to change ownership from root to my current user but not to the one I needed.
    – Dmitrij Kultasev
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 18:21

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