I miss smbfs: cifs doesn't work as expected

[Nico Sabbi]

Hi,
with another distribution I could mount an SMB share as my user
(passing different credentials to mount.smbfs)
in such a manner that on my pc the mounted files appeared
to belong to my user.
The /etc/fstab entry was:

//server/dir /home/nico/dir smbfs 
noauto,users,rw,noexec,username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD 0 0 0 0

In FC8, instead, using cifs I can't obtain the same result: mounting 
always fails. The problem seems to be related to mount.cifs:

$ smb4k_mount -t cifs -n //server/dir  ./a -o  
username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD

mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

How can I make this configuration work? I can neither change
the user exporting the share nor change my local user.

I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) .

Thanks,
	Nico

[agraham]

Albert Graham wrote:
>  Hi Nico,
>
>  I'm not sure if FC6 is the same as FC8 with respect to SMB but I 
>  assume it is.
>
>  The main thing I noticed is that you are using forward slashes (i.e. 
>  unix notation) and Windows uses "backslash /" notation, 
Sorry, please
ignore the above comment, its wrong ! but the example works.

[Chris Snook]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
>  completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) . 
It's been deprecated for a very long time.  All new development is happening on 
cifs, and has been for years, so if you think there's really a cifs bug (rather 
than simply a difference in syntax), please report a bug against cifs.  The time 
has come for us to let smbfs rest in peace.

	-- Chris

[Mikkel]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  Hi,
>  with another distribution I could mount an SMB share as my user
>  (passing different credentials to mount.smbfs)
>  in such a manner that on my pc the mounted files appeared
>  to belong to my user.
>  The /etc/fstab entry was:
>  
>  //server/dir /home/nico/dir smbfs 
>  noauto,users,rw,noexec,username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD 0 0 0 0
>  
>  In FC8, instead, using cifs I can't obtain the same result: mounting 
>  always fails. The problem seems to be related to mount.cifs:
>  
>  $ smb4k_mount -t cifs -n //server/dir  ./a -o  
>  username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD
>  
>  mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
>  Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>  
>  How can I make this configuration work? I can neither change
>  the user exporting the share nor change my local user.
>  
>  I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
>  completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) .
>  
>  Thanks,
>  	Nico
>   
I believe this has been covered a few times in different threads.
One difference between smbfs and cifs is the way cifs handles
looking up server names. You are probably going to have to specify
the server name, and possible the IP address.

mount -t cifs //mikkel/Backup /mnt/temp/ -o
servern=MIKKEL,MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD,ip=192.168.1.9

Now, I can do a DNS lookup on mikkel so all I need is:

mount -t cifs //mikkel/Backup /mnt/temp/ -o
servern=MIKKEL,MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[agraham]

Hi Nico,

I'm not sure if FC6 is the same as FC8 with respect to SMB but I assume 
it is.

The main thing I noticed is that you are using forward slashes (i.e. 
unix notation) and Windows uses "backslash /" notation,

e.g. on my machine I use:

# mount -t cifs -n //localhost/mydata  /media -o username=windows
# password: <enter your password>

#mount
/#/localhost/mydata on /media type cifs (rw,mand)

Hope I didn't miss your point :(

Al.




Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  Hi,
>  with another distribution I could mount an SMB share as my user
>  (passing different credentials to mount.smbfs)
>  in such a manner that on my pc the mounted files appeared
>  to belong to my user.
>  The /etc/fstab entry was:
>
>  //server/dir /home/nico/dir smbfs 
>  noauto,users,rw,noexec,username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD 0 0 0 0
>
>  In FC8, instead, using cifs I can't obtain the same result: mounting 
>  always fails. The problem seems to be related to mount.cifs:
>
>  $ smb4k_mount -t cifs -n //server/dir  ./a -o  
>  username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD
>
>  mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
>  Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
>  How can I make this configuration work? I can neither change
>  the user exporting the share nor change my local user.
>
>  I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
>  completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) .
>
>  Thanks,
>  	Nico
>
>