samba woes

[GH Snijders]

Net Llama! <netllama <at> linux-sxs.org> writes:

> 
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> >
> > >With cifs I get:
> > >mount error 13 = Permission denied

[...]
 
> And amazingly, this command works:
>  mount -t cifs -o
> username="blahuser",password="foopaswd",domain="fc.com" //BUILDS/BIOS
> /mnt/builds
> 
> So it looks like maybe the domain isn't/wasn't getting passed from my
> smb.conf?

That's right, it's also documented behaviour ;)

>From the link Aaron posted (had to break the URL, it should be on 1 line):
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/
linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=7b4ac096cd114d34e623bafaed91b85ba4a95e62


<quote>
Note that the cifs vfs, unlike the smbfs vfs, does not read the smb.conf 
on the client system (the few optional settings are passed in on mount via 
-o parameters instead). 
</quote>

It's a bit long but very interesting and readable, i can recommend 
reading it, that should really clear things up.
 
> I tried adding the domain as an option in my fstab entry, but doing a
> 'mount -a' still doesn't want to work:
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> 
> I'm this -> <- close to getting this 100% working.  Surely, i'm missing
> something obvious at this point?
 
Yes, according to the documentation this is possible, though it involves
a Suid program.


HTH, HAND


mvg,
   Guus Snijders
   LinuxFocus member