xfsamba doesn't like me

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 12:05, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 11:35, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 
> > I think the module support for smbfs.o must be enabled in the kernel so
> > that the kernel will automatically load the module when necessary.
> 
> 	It's the stock 2.4.18-10 kernel from the RH updates.  I'll see about
> rebuilding it to make sure.

Personally I've never gotten the kernels from the RH updates to work
properly. I guess that's why I build vanilla kernels.

>   
> > > However, xfsamba still gives me the bird.  Is there anything else I can
> > > check to try and see why this is giving me fits?
> > 
> > All xfsamba does is fork to exec smbmount. So if that command line
> > works, xfsamba should also. Of course, xfsamba also creates mount points
> > in /tmp and removes them on closing the xftree window, so you need write
> > access to these points.
> 
> 	I know, that's the puzzling part.  The smb[u]mount files are suid root
> and /tmp/xfsamba is -
> 
> drwxrwxr-t    4 klemmerj klemmerj     4096 Sep  2 10:41 xfsamba
> 
> I just re-re-rebuilt XFce 3.8.18 from CVS today, if that helps.  Where
> else could I look to see what might be causing this?

I think this might be a bug:
  xfsamba uses /tmp/xfsamba to create temporary directories for smb
mounts. On exiting the directory must be deleted. If by any chance you
created the directories as user_1, then user_2 would not be able to
mount because /tmp/xfsamba belongs to user_1. You might have created the
directory as root and it's still there. This would make xfsamba mounts
fail (unless you specify an alternate mount point).

Edscott


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