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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:

> On 13/02/2012 13:45, Heiko Zuerker wrote:     > Hey,   Quoting Andrzej
> Odyniec <an...@ma...>[1]:> Heiko Zuerker wrote:> 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.
>>> Heiko,  You are right. I did not check carefully the cause. Now I'm
>>> wiser, because I read the sources.> I just checked in the latest samba
>>> and an update to cifsutils. Hopefully the newer version works better
>>> for you.
>>> 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.
>> Does the version I built work for you?
>
> Andrzej/Heiko:
>
> I wonder if this is related to the 'Samba       wide links problems:
> canonicalize_connect_path failed[2]' 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?

I was able to turn the wide links off when I upgraded to the latest DL  
with Samba 3.6.3.
Give that a try.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
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