I have a domain hoster that provides access via SSH.

My platforms are:

• Gentoo 2.6.36-r5
• Windows (XP/Vista/7)

I work on my Windows, I use Gentoo to do all the magic Windows can't do.

Therefore I use sshfs to mount the remote public directory for my domain to /mnt/mydomain.com. Authentication is done via keys, so lazy me don't have to type in my password every now and then.

Since I do my coding on Windows, and I don't want to upload/download the changed files all the time, I want to access this /mnt/mydomain.com via a samba share.

So I shared /mnt in samba, all mounts except mydomain.com is listed on my Windows Explorer.

My theories are:

1. sshfs does not set the mountpoint uid/gid to something that samba expects
2. samba does not know that it has to include the uid/gid that /mnt/mydomain.com has been set.
3. All above is wrong, and I don't know.

Here are configs and output from console, need anything else just let me know. Also no errors or warnings that I take notice of being relevant to this issue, but I might be wrong.

gentoo ~ # ls -lah /mnt
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  root  4.0K Mar 26 16:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root  root  4.0K Mar 26  2011 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root     0 Feb  1 16:12 .keep
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  root     0 Mar 18 12:09 buffer
drwxr-s--x  1 68591 68591 4.0K Feb 16 15:43 mydomain.com
drwx------  2 root  root  4.0K Feb  1 16:12 cdrom
drwx------  2 root  root  4.0K Feb  1 16:12 floppy
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  root     0 Sep  1  2009 services
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  root     0 Feb 10 15:08 www

/etc/samba/smb.conf

[mnt]
comment = Mount points
writable = yes
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
browsable = yes
path = /mnt

/etc/fstab

sshfs#[email protected]:/home/to/pub/dir/ /mnt/mydomain.com/ fuse comment=sshfs,noauto,users,exec,uid=0,gid=0,allow_other,reconnect,follow_symlinks,transform_symlinks,idmap=none,SSHOPT=HostBasedAuthentication 0 0

For an easier read:

• [email protected]
• /home/to/pub/dir/
• /mnt/mydomain.com/

options:

• comment=sshfs
• noauto
• users
• exec
• uid=0
• gid=0
• allow_other
• reconnect
• follow_symlinks
• transform_symlinks
• idmap=none
• SSHOPT=HostBasedAuthentication

Help!