xfsamba deadlock

Peeter Vois Peeter.Vois at mail.ee
Fri Mar 21 08:11:46 CET 2003


Hi, I'm afraid that this problem is programmed into smbmnt because of
"security reasons". 

      Peeter Vois
http://my.tele2.ee/vois


> > 
> > 	When I try and mount a share I get this error:
> > 
> > 3620: Connection to CTOFS01 failed
> > smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
> > smbmnt failed: 1
> > 
> > 	When I suid smbmnt to root I get this:
> > 
> > libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
> > SMB connection failed
> > 
> > 	This means that I can't mount unless smbmnt is suid root which
> > 	isn't
> > allowed to run suid root.
> 
> So something in your configuration makes libsmb programs not able to be
> suid root. I guess you can either change that configuration, or do the
> mounts as root (which is what that configuration seems to ensure).
> 
> Edscott
> 
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