Re: [webmin-devel] [FSTAB] Samba-Problems with Webmin Version 1.163

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

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 05:59, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> found on SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2
> 
> When I use the mount module to mount windows-shares I receive erros 
> all the time. Doing it from the command line there is no problem.
> 
> When I add this into /etc/samba/smbfstab
> 
> //$server/$share /$linux/$dir smbfs \
> 	username=$username,password=$password
> 
> and then do an /etc/init.d/smbfs restart
> 
> the share is mounted.
> 
> When I do a local
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o \ 
> username=$username,password=$password //$server/$share /$linux/$dir
> 
> everything works fine as well.
> 
> When I look at the code for this in suse-linux-lib.pl
> 
> [...]
> if (&has_command("mount.smbfs")) {
>         $smbfs_support = `mount.smbfs -v` =~ /username=/i ? 4 : 3;
>         $smbfs_fs = "smbfs";
>         }
> [...]
> 
> "mount.smbfs" is out of service as well as "smbmount"
> 
> [...]
> elsif (&has_command("smbmount")) {
>         $smbfs_support = `smbmount -v` =~ /Version\s+2/i ? 2 : 1;
>         $smbfs_fs = "smbfs";
>         }
> [...]
> 
> It has worked with the very first version of Samba 3.02 on SuSE Linux 
> 9.1, but did not anymore when someone upgraded to Samba 3.04 with 
> Yast Online Update. In fact the mount was mounted from /etc/fstab, 
> but no longer if you needed to alter that mount.
> 
> Please can someone patch against this in order to ...
> 
> a) Only use "mount -t smbfs ..."
> b) write this into an existing /etc/samba/sbmfstab to hide passwords.
> c) write only to /etc/fstab if users should be able to mount this as 
> well.
> 
> bis dahin - kind regards

So does the mount.smbfs program not exist on SuSE 9.1? Typically there
is a mount.XXX for every XXX filesystem supported ..

Without this program, it is hard for Webmin to know if SMBFS support is
installed or not.

 - Jamie