[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#458071: Wrong file timestamps on smbfs mounted share when timezone +13

[Alex Jenner]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the quick reply.

> Is the problem reproducible if mounting as a cifs share instead of an
> smbfs share?

I've already done some testing and mount.smbfs results in creation of
wrong file timestamps for the following timezones:

Pacific/Auckland +13:00 during daylight saving
Pacific/Chatham +13:45 during daylight saving
Pacific/Tongatapu +13:00
Pacific/Enderbury +13:00
Pacific/Kiritimati +14:00

When I tried mount.cifs I got "mount error 13 = Permission denied".
Even though the same configuration had worked for mount.smbfs.

However, after changes to smb.conf - e.g. adding 'security = share' - it
was possible to use mount.cifs. Using mount.cifs resulted in correct file
timestamps created for all the timezones listed above.

So while mount.cifs helped me, I suspect it might break things for some
people.

> The smbfs kernel driver is deprecated, and will no longer be
> supported in Debian lenny.

When you say the smbfs kernel driver is depreciated, I take it that means
nobody is making any fixes to smbfs upstream?

Reading another bug report, it seems that in future, mount.smbfs will
become a wrapper to mount.cifs and 'true' smbfs is gone? Does this apply
regardless of how smbfs is requested?
e.g. 'smbmount' 'mount -t smbfs' and smbfs entry in /etc/fstab.

Regards,
Alex Jenner (Lex)