xfsamba can't mount shares

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Thu Aug 29 21:14:02 CEST 2002


On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 15:09, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> It might be a kernel problem. In order to mount smb shares, the kernel
> must have support for smb filesystems. In FreeBSD, noticeable, the
> kernels on distributions do not have SMB filesupport enabled (shucks,
> they don't even have ext2 support enabled). 

	The kernel I am running is kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-10 on RH Valhalla.  I
am currently d/l'ing the non-bigmem rpm as I don't really need bigmem
support.
 
> Try opening xfsamba as root and doing the mount. If it succeeds, then
> it's a file mode problem (both "smbmnt" and "smbumount" must be suid
> root, the "smbmount" you find lying around there is just to make things
> confusing because making it suid-root doesn't help)

	Doesn't work as root, either.  All of the above are suid root.  :-(

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