Package: smbfs Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge6 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man8/mount.cifs.8.gz
mount.cifs ignores the uid and gid options "when the target server supports the CIFS Unix extensions". This causes a serious problem when the target server doesn't do the uid and gid properly. I know because I just experienced this problem tonight. See http://lwn.net/Articles/232430/ as a reference. Ideally, the user should be able to instruct mount.cifs to use the provided uid and gid options regardless of Unix extensions. Another good thing to do would be to put the workaround solution in the man page. I know it works because I tried it tonight. The workaround is "echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled" before mounting. By the way, I actually did this on an Ubuntu Feisty system, but I am reporting to Debian since I love Debian. The SMB file server was an Apple computer running Mac OS X. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages smbfs depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcomerr2 1.37-2sarge1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2sarge5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-8 OpenLDAP libraries ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii samba-common 3.0.14a-3sarge6 Samba common files used by both th -- no debconf information -- "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; . . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." James Madison, 1795, from Letters and Other Writings of James Madison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
