Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:32 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Stef Bon has reported some difficulty with the current auto.smb.
>>
>> I have made a patch which demonstrates the change he is recommending and
>> would like comments from others that use CIFS mounts.
>>
>> To quote Stef, from his previous mail:
>>
>> "Well, the script does (in my network) work with cifs shares, where the
>> original auto.smb doesn't. In my case I have to add the ipaddress or it
>> does not work. The manpage of mount.cifs says that this option has to be
>> used rarely. But it's my experience sometimes when mounting a Win2K or
>> WinXP machine, it does not work.
>> (CIFS expects the tcp name and not the netbiosname, smbfs did that)
>>
>> So I cannot say it's a really "must", but at least it cannot "hurt".
>> You're on the safe side when using the ipaddress."
>>
>> Can we have some comments on the patch below please (including you Stef,
>> since I've modified you change a bit).
>>
>> Ian
>
> Sorry, the patch was not quite right.
>
> autofs-5.0.3 - CIFS use ip address
>
> From: Stef Bon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> It has been reported that, for a CIFS mount, in some cases the ip
> address of the server is needed otherwise the mount can fail.
> ---
>
> samples/auto.smb | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/samples/auto.smb b/samples/auto.smb
> index fb39053..7bec126 100755
> --- a/samples/auto.smb
> +++ b/samples/auto.smb
> @@ -3,7 +3,31 @@
> # This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!
>
> key="$1"
> -opts="-fstype=cifs"
> +
> +FILESYSTEM="cifs"
> +
So, umm, when is $FILESYSTEM not going to be cifs?
> +if [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "cifs" ]; then
> + opts="-fstype=$FILESYSTEM,guest"
> +else
> + for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
> + do
> + if [ -x $P/nmblookup ]; then
> + NMBLOOKUP=$P/nmblookup
> + break
> + fi
> + done
> +
> + if [ ! -x "$NMBLOOKUP" ]; then
> + exit 1
> + fi
Is it possible to not have the nmblookup program? It seems to me it
would be safer to at least try the mount w/o the ip address if you can't
obtain one.
> +
> + ipaddress=$($NMBLOOKUP $key --debug-level=0 2>>/dev/null | grep '<00>'
> | awk '{ print $1 }')
> + if [ -z "$ipaddress" ]; then
> + exit 1
> + fi
> +
> + opts="-fstype=cifs,guest,ip=$ipaddress"
> +fi
>
> for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
> do
Can we compress these two loops that do the same thing (determine the
path to the samba/cifs binaries)?
Cheers,
Jeff
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