Hi On 29 November 2010 21:45, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > In the meantime, I'm posting the question on his behalf: > > I’ve got two very vanilla installs of centos one 5.5 the other 5.4. > The 5.4 is the “server” and the 5.5 is the client. I have set up a SMB > share on the server and I am trying to mount that share from the > client. I get error 13 permission denied. When I check the messages I > see that the server is requesting the password as plain text but the > client is not configured that way. When I cat > /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags I get 0x7. The docs list the default as > 0x07007. If I open the file with a binary editor I see… nothing. There > is nothing in the file.
Files in /proc are not real files, but just a way for the kernel to provide some way for you to see what it's doing or tweak things. See e.g. http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html for more details. > Is there some other method to edit the security flags file? I see may The way you "edit" files in proc is simply by doing: echo newvalue >/proc/blah but, you can only do this if the file is writable. And if it's not writable you cannot simply chmod u+w it. If it's not writable it is because the kernel does not accept direct modifications of that value. > use plaintext passwords as 0x00020 in the mount.cifs doc but no > instructions on how to change the flag. Even more curiously these > files seem to be continuously updated as they (all of the flag files > in that directory) have current timestamps. The permissions on the > files are all set ass read only and even if I went in and changed the > contents it is not clear that it wouldn’t be immediately overwritten > by something else. This is explained by the fact that /proc is a sort of virtual filesystem as explained by the link above. > This seems to be related to other problems I have had with SMB shares. > Is there some other security console where these protocol policies are > managed? Thanks You might want to ask on the linux-cifs mailing list, since it seems you're asking about mount.cifs. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-cifs See also: http://www.samba.org/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
