Thread: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

A web-based interface for system administration of UNIX

Brought to you by: iliaross, jcameron

webadmin-devel

[webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Bart K. <ba...@cl...> - 2004-03-24 01:05:31

How big is the chance that  a new version of webmin will support 
mounting cifs ?

-- 
____________________________________________________

Bart Kalita  MCP

Registered Linux user #347493   Fedora Core 2

www.bart-domain.com    www.astradine.no-ip.org

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2004-03-24 10:27:09

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 ..

 - Jamie

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 12:02, Bart Kalita wrote:
> How big is the chance that  a new version of webmin will support 
> mounting cifs ?

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Bart K. <ba...@cl...> - 2004-03-24 11:01:39

No, its not.

When nounting via smbfs in webmin:

"Error: smbfs filesystem not supported by kernel...."

Kernel version is 2.6.4-1.286 form Fedora Core 2 Test 1

apparently `support for smbmnt is out and support for cifs is in.

Once mounted  via cifs U can see them  in webmin in Disk and Network 
Filesystems  but  shares can't be made permanent nor can be edited.

It might be only Fedora/Red Hat idea during testing, and they will 
revert to using smbmnt in release Kernels.

Still If they decide to stay with cifs.....

curently I mount my shares via shell with following command:

mount -t cifs -o username=administrator //Nexus/Downs 
/home/bart/nexus_downs/

 


Jamie Cameron wrote:

>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 ..
>
> - Jamie
>
>On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 12:02, Bart Kalita wrote:
>  
>
>>How big is the chance that  a new version of webmin will support 
>>mounting cifs ?
>>    
>>
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
>Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
>GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
>administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
>-
>Forwarded by the Webmin development list at web...@we...
>To remove yourself from this list, go to
>http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-devel
>
>
>
>  
>


-- 
____________________________________________________

Bart Kalita  MCP

Registered Linux user #347493   Fedora Core 2

www.bart-domain.com    www.astradine.no-ip.org

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Peter A. <pe...@ce...> - 2004-03-24 12:58:37

> 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?


-- 
Peter Åstrand		www.thinlinc.com
Cendio			www.cendio.se
Teknikringen 3		Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
583 30 Linköping

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Bart K. <ba...@cl...> - 2004-03-24 15:08:20

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.

-- 
____________________________________________________

Bart Kalita  MCP

Registered Linux user #347493   Fedora Core 2

www.bart-domain.com    www.astradine.no-ip.org

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2004-03-25 00:07:20

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

Re: [webmin-devel] mount.cifs

From: Bart K. <ba...@cl...> - 2004-03-25 01:20:26

That will be just great!

in the mean time I managed to recomple new kernel with smbmnt support .

what I've learned form fedora-devel list about cifs support in their 
Kernel is that they are testing cifs and if  all works fine smbmnt 
support will be off by default in Fedora core  2 release due in May. On 
the other hand there seems to be only two people really interested in 
cifs/smbmnt situation one being me :-)

anyway if you are interested you can always look through fedora-devel 
mailing list.

Jamie Cameron wrote:

> "..."
>
>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
>
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
>Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
>GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
>administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
>-
>Forwarded by the Webmin development list at web...@we...
>To remove yourself from this list, go to
>http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-devel
>
>
>
>  
>

-- 
____________________________________________________

Bart Kalita  MCP

Registered Linux user #347493   Fedora Core 2

www.bart-domain.com    www.astradine.no-ip.org