Preserve ownership and file permissions on CIFS Share

hacktheworld · 10-05-2023, 06:06 AM

Hi guys,

I'm dealing with a problem with a CIFS share and a rsync process.
CIFS is mounted in fstab:

//server/backup /backup cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/etc/backup-credentials.txt,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770,user_xattr 0 0

Rsync command I launch is:

rsync -avp --delete /home/lab /backup

All user files under /home/user are owned by lab user but files in /backup are owned by uid=1000 and gid=1000 as defined in fstab.

I want to preserve ownership.
May be possible?

Thank you very much

pan64 · 10-05-2023, 11:54 PM

yes, possible, but you need to use different mount options. It is now forced to use uid=1000 and gid=1000.