[linux-cifs-client] CIFS and Namespaces (pam_namespace.so)

Wilhelm Meier wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de
Mon Dec 17 19:42:27 GMT 2007


Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 schrieben Sie:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:52:00 +0100
>
> Wilhelm Meier <wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use cifs-mounts and namespaces together. I set up
> > an client machine which mounts user-homes and public directories,
> > e.d.
> >
> > /home/tester (is mounted from //server/homes/tester, uid=tester)
> >
> > /var/lib/cifs/public_inst/tester (is mounted from
> > //server/public, uid=tester)
> >
> > and with pam_namespace.so
> >
> > /home/public is bind-mounted from
> > /var/lib/cifs/public_inst/tester in the new namespace.
> >
> > If I try this with an additional uses (replace tester with
> > tester2 in the aboce example) simultaneously on the same machine,
> > I got
> >
> > CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> Are you using signatures? 

No.

> I've been working some with kerberos 
> mounts today and have found that CIFS tries to share TCP sessions
> between users, but that doesn't seem to be working well with
> signatures enabled (you need different signing keys, etc). 

This might be a problem due to the different namespaces ...

> You may 
> want to try disabling signatures and see if that works around the
> problem.

How do I do that?


-- 
Wilhelm


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