<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>2) On the client, use a filesystem type of smbfs rather than cifs. You'll<br> also need to change "file_mode" to "fmask" and "dir_mode" to "dmask",
<br> but everything else should work as you've specified it. If you've got a<br> specific reason for using cifs rather than smbfs, of course, this won't<br> work, but it means you won't need to change your server's configuration.
<br> FWIW, my understanding is that the Linux cifs filesystem is under active<br> development but smbfs isn't. This makes cifs a safer choice for future<br> support; however, smbfs is more mature and better tested.
</blockquote><div><br> </div><br></div>I haven't used Samba with Myth, at least not yet, but I do use it fairly extensively at work. I know on my FC6 workstation I found with recent kernels I could not mount file systems as type 'smbfs' anymore. I got error messages saying it wasn't supported in the kernel. Might be a way around this, but I just switched to cifs. So, if the OP is using stock FC6 kernels going with smbfs might not be an option.
<br><br>How about using the 'username map' option in smb.conf? From the man page for smb.conf:<p>This option allows you to specify a file containing a mapping of usernames from the clients to the server.
This can be used for several purposes. The most common is to map usernames that users use on DOS or Windows
machines to those that the UNIX box uses. The other is to map multiple users to a single username so that they
can more easily share files.</p>I haven't used this option for quite some time, but if I'm understanding correctly what you are trying to accomplish it may help.<br><br>