2.6.21.5 and CIFS

mattydee · 10-01-2007, 03:43 PM

I can't remember all the details right now and I'm too lazy to find a relevant link, but basically the default Slackware kernel is useless if you plan on using CIFS.

I have a custom 2.6.22.1 to get around this.

Do most people use SMBFS? (those that use windows shares at all, that is).

Just curious

randomsel · 10-01-2007, 03:47 PM

that's strange, using generic-smp and I haven't noticed any problems with cifs streaming media from a winbox.

mount //server01/anime /mnt/tmp -t cifs

rworkman · 10-01-2007, 08:42 PM

I'm using CIFS with no problems at all, and I know several others who are as well.
What problem(s) is/are you experiencing?

mattydee · 10-03-2007, 02:03 AM

You probably won't encounter any problems if you are using public shares.

From Kernel 2.6.22 change log:

Quote:

commit 3ce53fc4c57603d99c330a6ee2fe96d94f2d350f
Author: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri Jun 8 14:55:14 2007 +0000

[CIFS] CIFS should honour umask

This patch makes CIFS honour a process' umask like other filesystems.
Of course the server is still free to munge the permissions if it wants
to; but the client will send the "right" permissions to begin with.

A few caveats:

1) It only applies to filesystems that have CAP_UNIX (aka support unix
extensions)
2) It applies the correct mode to the follow up CIFSSMBUnixSetPerms()
after remote creation

When mode to CIFS/NTFS ACL mapping is complete we can do the
same thing for that case for servers which do not
support the Unix Extensions.

Signed-off-by: Matt Keenen <matt@opcode-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

If I would mount a share (that user1 has rights to) as user1 (on client), it would give the folder permissions of user2 (on server).

So I couldn't access the share: "Permission Denied"

allend · 10-03-2007, 10:28 AM

I spent some time today changing the mounts on a Samba server from smbfs to cifs after upgrading to Slackware 12.0.
No problems with the XP boxes provided that the NetBIOS name can be related to an ip address (in my case they are static ip addresses in /etc/hosts), but the Win98 box caused grief until I found this.
http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/c...ient-guide.pdf

The magic that works for Win98 is
mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/c /mnt/point -o user=username,servern=NETBIOSNAME,sec=lanman

NETBIOSNAME must be capitalised.
tcp-name must be the ip address (like 192.168.x.x)