Git commit 93a0d23efff879794687058b13f6b2790f0f55ae by Alexander Reinholdt. Committed on 22/10/2016 at 19:39. Pushed by areinholdt into branch 'master'.
Updated handbook. M +45 -53 doc/index.docbook http://commits.kde.org/smb4k/93a0d23efff879794687058b13f6b2790f0f55ae diff --git a/doc/index.docbook b/doc/index.docbook index 5ad86bf..4ab303b 100644 --- a/doc/index.docbook +++ b/doc/index.docbook @@ -1392,11 +1392,14 @@ <sect1 id="special_remarks"> <title>Special Remarks</title> -<!-- Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Samba Security Fixes of April 12, 2016 --> +<!-- + Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Samba Security Fixes of April 12, 2016 +--> <sect2 id="special_remarks_samba_security_updates"> - <title>Remarks Regarding the Samba Security Fixes of April 12, 2016</title> - <para>On April 12, 2016 the Samba team released security fixes for the <ulink url="http://www.badlock.org";>Badlock bug</ulink>. Unfortunately, they also introduced a regression that causes the <command>net</command> command to fail on many systems when querying remote hosts. If you experience this issue, you can add two lines to the [global] section of your <filename>smb.conf</filename> file to make browsing work again:</para> + <title>Remarks Regarding the Samba Security Fixes of April 12, 2016</title> + + <para>On April 12, 2016 the Samba team released security fixes for the <ulink url="http://www.badlock.org";>Badlock bug</ulink>. Unfortunately, they also introduced a regression that causes the <command>net</command> command to fail on many systems when querying remote hosts. If you experience this issue, you can add two lines to the [global] section of your <filename>smb.conf</filename> file to make browsing work again:</para> <programlisting>[global] ... @@ -1404,63 +1407,52 @@ client max protocol = SMB3 client ipc max protocol = NT1 ...</programlisting> - <para>Unfortunately, this fix for &smb4k; breaks the possibility to connect to the network neighborhood with &dolphin; and maybe also other programs.</para> -</sect2> + <para>Unfortunately, this fix for &smb4k; breaks the possibility to connect to the network neighborhood with &dolphin; and maybe also other programs.</para> + </sect2> -<!-- Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Remarks for FreeBSD Users --> +<!-- + Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Remarks for FreeBSD Users +--> -<sect2 id="special_remarks_freebsd"> -<title>Remarks for FreeBSD Users</title> + <sect2 id="special_remarks_freebsd"> + <title>Remarks for FreeBSD Users</title> -<sect3 id="special_remarks_freebsd_installation"> -<title>DBUS and PolKit-1</title> -<para>&smb4k; makes use of the &kde; authorization API (KAuth) to enable mounting of remote shares. KAuth uses DBUS and PolKit-1 (or PolicyKit) for privilege escalation, so it is necessary that &smb4k; is set up properly. When installing &smb4k; under FreeBSD, it might be necessary to manually adjust some things to achieve this (With version 1.0.10 of package <application>kdehier4</application> this seems to be fixed!):</para> -<itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Check that the file <filename>net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.policy</filename> exists in the directory <filename class="directory">/usr/local/share/polkit-1/actions/</filename>. If it is not present, you need to link (or copy) it to that location: -<screen><userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>cd</command> <filename class="directory">/usr/local/share/polkit-1/actions/</filename></userinput> -<userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>sudo ln</command> -s \ -<filename>/usr/local/kde4/share/polkit-1/actions/net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.policy</filename> .</userinput></screen></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>The installation most likely put the DBUS files into the wrong location, so you have to link (or copy) them to the right one: -<screen><userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>cd</command> <filename class="directory">/usr/local/share/dbus-1/system-services</filename></userinput> -<userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>sudo ln</command> -s \ -<filename>/usr/local/kde4/share/dbus-1/system-services/net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.service</filename> .</userinput></screen></para> - </listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</sect3> + <sect3 id="special_remarks_freebsd_mounting"> + <title>Mounting of Shares (Smb4K >= 1.2.0)</title> -<sect3 id="special_remarks_freebsd_mounting"> -<title>Mounting of Shares (Smb4K >= 1.2.0)</title> -<para>Since version 1.2.0, the password for a share is directly passed to <command>mount_smbfs</command>, so that the <filename>~/.nsmbrc</filename> is not necessary anymore for mounting to work. Moreover, &smb4k; will not write any data to that file anymore.</para> -</sect3> -</sect2> + <para>Since version 1.2.0, the password for a share is directly passed to <command>mount_smbfs</command>, so that the <filename>~/.nsmbrc</filename> is not necessary anymore for mounting to work. Moreover, &smb4k; will not write any data to that file anymore.</para> + </sect3> + </sect2> -<!-- Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Remarks for NetBSD Users --> +<!-- + Using Smb4K : Special Remarks : Remarks for NetBSD Users +--> -<sect2 id="special_remarks_netbsd"> -<title>Remarks for NetBSD Users</title> + <sect2 id="special_remarks_netbsd"> + <title>Remarks for NetBSD Users</title> + + <sect3 id="special_remarks_netbsd_installation"> + <title>DBUS and PolicyKit</title> + + <para>Under NetBSD, &smb4k; is able to run since version 1.2.0. However, some modifications have to be made in order to be able to mount and unmount shares:</para> + <para>Assuming that the prefix of your &kde; installation is <filename class="directory">/usr/pkg</filename>, the following steps have to be taken to make &smb4k; work properly:</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem><para>Configure, compile and install &smb4k; according to the directions given in the <link linkend="appendix_compilation">Configuration, Compilation and Installation</link> section of the appendix.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>After installation, link (or copy) the file <filename>net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.conf</filename> from the <filename class="directory">examples</filename> directory to the right location:</para> + <para><screen><userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>cd</command> <filename class="directory">/usr/pkg/etc/dbus-1/system.d/</filename></userinput> + <userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>sudo ln</command> -s \ + <filename>/usr/pkg/share/examples/kde4-dbus/net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.conf</filename> .</userinput></screen></para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Edit the file <filename>/usr/pkg/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf</filename> and add the following paragraph in the <config version="0.1"> section:</para> + +<programlisting> +<match action="org.kde.smb4k.mounthelper.*"> +<return result="yes"> +</match></programlisting> -<sect3 id="special_remarks_netbsd_installation"> - <title>DBUS and PolicyKit</title> -<para>Under NetBSD, &smb4k; is able to run since version 1.2.0. However, some modifications have to be made in order to be able to mount and unmount shares:</para> -<para>Assuming that the prefix of your &kde; installation is <filename class="directory">/usr/pkg</filename>, the following steps have to be taken to make &smb4k; work properly:</para> -<itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Configure, compile and install &smb4k; according to the directions given in the <link linkend="appendix_compilation">Configuration, Compilation and Installation</link> section of the appendix.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>After installation, link (or copy) the file <filename>net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.conf</filename> from the <filename class="directory">examples</filename> directory to the right location:</para> -<para><screen><userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>cd</command> <filename class="directory">/usr/pkg/etc/dbus-1/system.d/</filename></userinput> -<userinput><prompt>$</prompt> <command>sudo ln</command> -s \ -<filename>/usr/pkg/share/examples/kde4-dbus/net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.conf</filename> .</userinput></screen></para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Edit the file <filename>/usr/pkg/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf</filename> and add the following paragraph in the <config version="0.1"> section:</para> - <programlisting> - <match action="net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.*"> - <return result="yes"> - </match></programlisting> -<para>This will allow everyone to mount and unmount remote Samba shares with &smb4k;.</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</sect3> -</sect2> + <para>This will allow everyone to mount and unmount remote Samba shares with &smb4k;.</para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </sect3> + </sect2> </sect1> </chapter>
