On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: > You mean something like this? > > http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html
:) I modified his smbfs patches for "unix extensions" during the weekend (they are in 2.5 now). Didn't read the whole page though ... > But, every time I think about this, it makes me wonder if this ins't > what kerberos is supposed to do (aka I don't like having anything around > which caches the clear-text passowrd). The changes needed in 3.0 to get smbmount to support kerberos are really small. One possible issue with that is that a mount that is disconnected needs to reconnect and if the kerberos ticket has expired it will fail. The answer would be to avoid being disconnected ... > If something like this were to occur, then it would be nice if it were > standardised, so that all linux smb clients could use it. Including Haven't checked how smbpwman talks to smbmount, but whatever it is the others should be able to do so as well. > BTW, we got a patch from a user who had problems with smbmount's hanging > when the smb server went down, to run umount2 on the mount point. > Interested? Of course. (Mmm ... patches) /Urban -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
