Samba 3.0 - Bug preventing mkfifo as non-root

Anders Karlsson trudheim at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 20:35:25 GMT 2007


Hi,

On 1/21/07, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 02:43 +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:43 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, just checked this here at home. Did a mount.cifs as
> > > myself and created a fifo using mkfifo on the mounted
> > > share no problem.
> > >
> > > I'm using the latest CIFSFS version (but then I just
> > > check out Steve's svn tree localy). The latest version
> > > number I can find (he really should use a version.h
> > > file !) is 1.46.
> > >
> > > You need to have the unix extensions enabled in smbd to
> > > allow this, but that should be by default.
> >
> > Grabbed the src.rpm or 3.0.23d and built on my FC6 system. Behaviour is
> > exactly the same as with Fedoras 3.0.23c. Interestingly, mount.cifs is
> > still version 1.10 in those samba packages. Would that have anything to
> > do with creation of FIFOs failing?
>
> mount.cifs is just a stub for resolving, and should have no impact on
> the negotiated capabilities.  Can you post a trace of the failure?


I've been tied up with the kids today, so did not get time to post the trace
until now. Please find attached  an archive with debug info.

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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