Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 02:08, Bart Kalita wrote:
> Peter Astrand wrote:
> 
> >>No, its not.
> >>
> >>"Error: smbfs filesystem not supported by kernel...."
> >>    
> >>
> >...
> >  
> >
> >>>Isn't CIFS just another name for SMBFS, which Webmin already supports
> >>>(at least on Linux). It is called the 'Windows Networking Filesystem'
> >>>type in the mount module ..
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >CIFS is just another name for SMB, but "cifsfs" is not the same thing as
> >"smbfs". smbfs is the old Linux kernel implementation, while cifsfs is new
> >and better one. cifsfs is included in Linux 2.6. Perhaps they have removed
> >smbfs?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> smbfs is turned off in  kernel since 2.6.3 -xx  in Fedora devel tree
> 
> #
> # Network File Systems
> #
> CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
> CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
> CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO=y
> CONFIG_NFSD=m
> CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
> CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y
> CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
> CONFIG_LOCKD=m
> CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
> CONFIG_EXPORTFS=m
> CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
> CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m
> CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5=m
> # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
> CONFIG_CIFS=m
> CONFIG_NCP_FS=m
> CONFIG_NCPFS_PACKET_SIGNING=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_IOCTL_LOCKING=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_STRONG=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_NFS_NS=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_OS2_NS=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_SMALLDOS=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS=y
> CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS=y
> # CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set
> 
> 
> sadly,  I'm not good enough to turn it back on and  get on with my work
> 
> funnily  cifs  stopped working too:
> 
> [bart@nemesis bart]$ su
> Password:
> [root@nemesis bart]# mount -t cifs -o user=administrator //Nexus/Downs 
> /home/bart/nexus_downs/
> Password:
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> [root@nemesis bart]#
> 
> and now I'm in the right pickle,  thankfully I still can see  Linux 
> machines from windows.

Thanks for this information.. Hopefully the commands for mounting CIFS
and SMBFS are similar enough, so that all Webmin needs to do is use -t
cifs instead of -t smbfs in the mount command, and everything will work.
I will include this fix in the upcoming 1.140 release of Webmin,
hopefully due out it about a week.

 - Jamie