[Samba] issues with cifs mount

Thierry Lacoste lacoste at univ-paris12.fr
Sat Jun 10 07:19:42 GMT 2006


I have a samba 3.0.14a PDC on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.
With pam_mount on Ubuntu 5.10 users have their home
mounted with mount.cifs.

I have 2 issues with this setting.
First with the evolution email client, when I pop my mails
I have the following error:

Cannot append message to mbox 
file: /home/profs/user1/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Permission denied

The log.smbd shows:
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox read=Yes write=Yes 
(numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/InboxizR3Ga read=Yes write=Yes 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/InboxizR3Ga (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/InboxizR3Ga read=Yes write=No 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/InboxizR3Ga (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta read=Yes write=Yes 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta read=Yes write=No 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.cmeta read=Yes write=No 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.cmeta (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta read=Yes write=No 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/.#Inbox.cmeta (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.lock read=Yes write=No 
(numopen=11)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.lock (numopen=10)
[2006/06/10 08:25:33, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .evolution/mail/local/Inbox (numopen=9)

I checked the permissions on .evolution/mail/local/ which appear to be OK.
I have no problem with evolution if my home is on the local filesystem.

The second issue is about KDE applications.
For instance when running kmail from a terminal I have an endless series of
WARNING: Problem deleting stale 
lockfile /home/profs/user1/.kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock

The log.smbd shows:
[2006/06/10 08:47:19, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock6GU7Wb.tmp read=Yes 
write=Yes (numopen=6)
[2006/06/10 08:47:19, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock6GU7Wb.tmp 
(numopen=5) 
[2006/06/10 08:47:19, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  user1 opened file .kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock6GU7Wb.tmp read=Yes 
write=No (numopen=6)
[2006/06/10 08:47:19, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(272)
  user1 closed file .kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock6GU7Wb.tmp 
(numopen=5) 

I have exactly the same issues with samba 3.0.21b on FreeBSD 6.1.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Thierry.


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