smbmount problems (still)
Matthew Vanecek
mev0003 at unt.edu
Fri Dec 17 14:25:37 GMT 1999
smbmount is still exhibiting the irritating behavior of not being able
to keep shares mounted. I only know about NT, but one fellow wrote me
(why me? I'm not an expert?) saying he was having the same problem with
Solaris--but he didn't mention any version numbers. I'm using v2.0.6 on
RH 6.0, mounting NT 4.0SP5 WS shares. It's very irritating. Isn't
there a better way to error out than generating an Input/output error?
remounting the timed-out share would be optimal...but with I/O errors,
you gotta su to root to umount the mountpoint. :(
Also (and I guess this is for Tridgell?), the following snippet of code
will fail to umount the share 100% of the time, if there is a connection
error, and the user is not root:
if (umount(mount_point) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not umount %s: %s\n",
mount_point, strerror(errno));
return;
}
Unless you have umount installed setuid root, of course, which in most
cases is not acceptable practice. Is there a better way to do this?
Maybe make a wrapper program or something?
ciao,
--
Matthew Vanecek
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