[Bobs-devel] SMB mount timeouts

[D'Arcey C. <dlc...@be...>]

Hi,

I've seen in other posts where the (un)mounting can hang and it is theorized
to be "samba's problem." I am looking for ways to track this down, as this
problem chronically affects me.

I have run the same command that it runs and gotten the same results:

     smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/mntpt -o
username=bobs,password=clearTextPassword

This hangs for some time, eventually timing out.

when a slightly modified command is run:

     smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/mntpt -o username=bobs

the system will prompt for the password and procede normally. My theory is
therefore that the cleartext storage of the password will hang on samba
servers that expect the password to be encrypted. I was wondering if you
could confirm this or shoot it down. I'm encouraged in this analysis by the
plethora of "FIXME's" around all the user password references.

Is there a workaround (such as wrapping a call to crypt() or something?)?

Thanks in advance,

DC