Well, that's part of the problem... I can't mount CIFS because I'm using Red Hat Enterprise 3 with the 2.4.21 kernel (can't upgrade... long story). It doesn't have the cifs module installed, and no matter how hard I try, it doesn't want to load it.
I had to download the source for the kernel from Red Hat (apparently it's modified from the "official" kernel.org version), and compile the cifs module (1.0.2b) against it. Then when I tried the insmod, it spat back a few errors about something, and stopped. I can't remember the errors, but I can check if it's really important. That's one of the main reasons I'm interested in the unix extensions for smb. Also, I'm using pam_mount, which doesn't like the "cifs" option for what type of mount I'm doing... it only knows NFS, SMB, NCP, and local. So even if I got cifs to work, it wouldn't work with pam_mount... unless I'm missing something with it. shannon ____________________________ Shannon Johnson Network Support Specialist / Systems Administrator Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering 224 Reber Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-8267 ____________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:55 PM > To: Shannon Johnson > Cc: Andrew Bartlett; Jeremy Allison; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Unix Extensions > > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Shannon Johnson wrote: > > OK, I got the snapshot version from last night and installed it, and > > finally got it to start. It complained briefly about the unix extensions > > option being set in the share section when it should be in the global > > section, but after I moved it, I get no complaints. > > > > A few questions about it -- > > > > 1) When I test it, I mount the share from a linux client, then try to > > create a link (both hard and symbolic) from an existing file to a new > > file within the share. Is this an adequate test of the "unix extensions" > > functionality? > > > > 2) Assuming that's a good test, it means something isn't working... I'm > > still getting an "Operating not permitted" error, on both the hard link > > and the symbolic link. I'll be glad to be the test subject, if this part > > of the project needs extra testing... > > Ok, I'm running current SAMBA_3_0 svn (snapshot) version with Steve > French's > cifsvfs-1.0.7a client on a Fedora Core 2 preview 2 system (Kernel 2.6.3) > system and symlinks and hardlinks both work fine here. > > What client are you running ? > > Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba