[webmin-l] CIFS mounts, Backups, ramblings

[Neal M. <Ne...@Mo...>]

Jamie:

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Any plans to augment the "Disk and Network FileSystems" module to
include the additional mount.cifs options as documented here:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html?  (I'm
specifically interested in being able to give it a credentials file
rather than listing user/password in clear text in my fstab file).

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How about plans (or current undocumented facilities) in the "Filesystem
Backup" module to override the command to use smbclient per its man
page/examples:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html

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I'd like to be able to backup to a Win/2003 share without incurring the
security penalties associated with always having the share mounted.
E.g. let me use smbclient, or let me mount/backup/verify/umount in one
evolution via the backup module.  I must be missing something here
because if I use the pre/post commands in backup, it executes the post
command prior to the verify step - causing the verify step to fail.

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More Ramblings:

This started as one of those items I had parked at the bottom of my task
list some time ago.  I couldn't get Samba/CIFS/Windows 2003 to play nice
together when mounting a Windows share.  I parked it on my list and
finally came back to it today.  Still, I cannot seem to manually execute
the mount command successfully.  Through dumb luck, I stumbled on the
network/filesystems page in Webmin and discovered it is smarter than I
am (no big surprise there!) and can perform the mount (hurray!).

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Problem is, once mounted everyone can write to it.  I'm not wild about
that situation.  I know I can (and probably will) go manually edit the
cron job and add an " && umount ..." to the command.  Likewise, the
clear text password in fstab via the filesystem module leaves me
uncomfortable.

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...and as long as I'm rambling, can the next person rambling about the
poll check the spelling on the subject?  :-) That one has been bugging
me for days.

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Thanks in advance, apologies if this has already been answered.

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Neal Morgan

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