Bug 4645

Summary: smbmount no longer allows to set smbfs group/permissions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: v.kuhlmann
Component: sambaAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description v.kuhlmann 1999-08-22 03:05:36 UTC 
samba + samba-client 2.0.5a-1 (update)

It used to be possible (2.0.3a, RH 6.0) to set the
group and permissions for files and directories with
someting like
	smbmount ... -c "mount -g smb -d 700 -f 600"
This is still stated in the man page, but smbmount no
longer has a -c option. smbmnt is even less featureful -
other than the required -s option it has nothing useful in
terms of options.
The current smbmount seems to have reverted to the behaviour
of RH5.x, without however having -g -d -f.

Another thing is that for the past so many years the
smbfs/smbmount has a very strong tendancy to assign dates
like 1917 to files/diretories. This causes a lot of problems
later as these dates are illegal under Unix.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-23 16:17:59 UTC 
Yes, this was changed in samba; as such, we probably won't change
it back. Sorry.

I haven't noticed strange timestamps here with it, though.
Are you mounting NT server filesystems with the Win95 workarounds
enabled in the kernel?  That could cause strange timestamp
behavior...
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 14:49:59 UTC 
We probably should have mentioned  that the command line options
did change in the advisory, yes.

As for the Win95 workaround/NT conflict, this should be fixed
with kernels >= 2.2.10, as they enable/disable the workarounds
automatically on a per-share basis.