[SunHELP] pc to unix

[Will Mc Donald]

Rose,

what are you using to get the PCs to to to the Unix boxes? Samba or PC-NFS?
Or something else?

Both Samba and NFS have facilities for "squashing" users' UIDs and GIDs.
I've had cause to use this with both Samba and NFS and it works nicely.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Santos" <rose.santos at nv.usda.gov>
To: "sunhelp" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:37 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] pc to unix


> I have a mapped partition from a PC to Unix, but whenever I put
> something on it from the PC, it gets assigned a -2 userid and groupid on
> UNIX.
> Then as superuser I have to change owner for my people.  This is because
>
> on our PC the naming convention is first.lastname on UNIX its flastname
> (first initial and last name)  Someone suggested adding the first.last
> to the passwd file with all the other info the same.  This doesnt seem
> to work...  Any ideas?  Its Solaris 2.6