I have a nas set up an am trying to rsync files to it. It works fine for file I own
$ id dogmatic69
uid=1000(dogmatic69) gid=1000(dogmatic69) groups=1000(dogmatic69),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),33(www-data),46(plugdev),110(lpadmin),111(sambashare),112(admin)
The problem files belong to the www-data user
$ id www-data
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)
When running there are loads of errors like:
rsync: failed to set permissions on "/some/file": Operation not permitted (1)
I have tried setting up the share for both users but still get the issue
sudo smbmount //server/development development -o credentials=/home/dogmatic69/.smbpassword,uid=33,gid=33
and
sudo smbmount //server/development development -o credentials=/home/dogmatic69/.smbpassword,uid=1000,gid=1000
all the source files are owned by www-data and have g+rw so the user dogmatic69 can view / edit them.
$ ls -al
total 956
drwxrwxr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-21 14:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2012-06-26 11:44 ..
drwxrwxr-x 17 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-21 14:10 folder1
drwxrwxr-x 7 www-data www-data 4096 2010-10-11 02:24 folder2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 510649 2011-05-26 20:48 file.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 78792 2011-05-26 20:15 other.html
Any idea how I can set this up so there are no errors and possibly keep the owner details correct.
Edit:
The server hosting the files is a linux based NAS, it is a simple box with no ssh and the choice of NFS or SMBFS. I played with NFS but found it pretty crap and a few people said its quite dated.
Best Answer
Remove any options from your rsync command line to set ownership. Rsync is trying to set permissions and apparently your SMB server doesn't support that functionality.
If
//server/development
is a Windows box, then trying to setup ownership permissions is pretty much never going to work. If it is a Samba host, then you need to make sure the CIFS UNIX Extensions are enabled on the server, and you need to usemount.cifs
notsmbmount
if you want to be able to use unix style permissions over SMB.