Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Problem with mount.cifs

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

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    On 13/02/2012 13:45, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:an...@ma...">&lt;an...@ma...&gt;</a>:
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        <pre wrap="">Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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          <pre wrap="">The addition of cifsutils was in preparation of the upgrade to samba 3.6.
The new samba version doesn't include any of the cifs client tools, that's
why we need that package.
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Heiko,

You are right. I did not check carefully the cause. Now I'm wiser, because I
read the sources.

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          <pre wrap="">I just checked in the latest samba and an update to cifsutils. Hopefully the
newer version works better for you.
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Before I wrote first mail, I checked the same with these new  
versions of samba
and cifs-utils. It did not solve the problem. Anyway, thanks for the upgrade.

The problem is with realpath function, which is used in mount.cifs to
canonicalize mount point path. Two specifications are used for this function:
one assumes that the second argument is obvious pointer to the buffer for
canonicalized path, and the second allows to NULL pointer, when realpath
should malloc memory for that buffer. mount.cifs uses second form and gives
NULL pointer to this call, but for some reason (for me at least), realpath is
not accepting NULL in the second parameter and gives error. Well, only in
32-bit compilation. Maybe because of some additional packages, added myself,
cifs-utils catch invalid library? I have to find the cause or patch  
cifs-utils.
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Does the version I built work for you?

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    Andrzej/Heiko:<br>
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    I wonder if this is related to the '<a
href="http://old.nabble.com/Samba-wide-links-problems%3A-canonicalize_connect_path-failed-td30728652.html">Samba
      wide links problems: canonicalize_connect_path failed</a>' problem
    that I reported on devil-linux-discuss on 21 Jan 2011 - and which
    still persists. It certainly sounds similar. Is it possible that the
    problem is caused by the location of smb.conf?<br>
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