On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:03, tech at mathco dot com wrote:
> When trying to mount a share with smbmount (the latest samba-client in
> cooker) as root
> i get this error, but the mount get mounted. But is not writable by other
> user then root.
>
> tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
> tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
> tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
>
> But if i try to smbmount it as a normal user i get this error
>
> libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
> 3098: Connection to SERVER failed
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> /MattB
>
This is not right.... Meaning, libsmb is telling you the right message.
>From the spec file:
%attr(4775,root,root) %{prefix}/bin/smbmount
%attr(4775,root,root) %{prefix}/bin/smbumount
Which is, well, wrong : )
smbmount and smbumount are simply front-ends to mount and umount (those
need to be setuid root).
So err s/4755/755 on that...
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