[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#431661: Bug#431661: smbmount options uid=, gid= stopped working after upgrading smbfs to version 3.0.25b-1+b1

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Ian,

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:48:22PM +1000, Ian MacKinnell wrote:
> smbmount options uid=,gid= stopped working after upgrading smbfs to 
> version 3.0.25b-1+b1

> Until I upgraded smbfs yesterday, I was able to mount shares on remote 
> Linux Samba servers with the options uid= and gid= working. Moreover, 
> these options still work fine from other smbfs client PCs in our office 
> that have not upgraded smbfs (connecting to the same servers). We have 
> made no recent changes to the smb.conf on our servers.

> But since upgrading smbfs, when I mount shares with smbmount I can only 
> see the uid and gid of the file owner(s) on the server (2058 and 2026, 
> instead of 1000 and 100, as it happens).

> I am using a fully up-to-date Debian GNU/Linux testing (Lenny), kernel 
> 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 and libc6 2.5-9+b1

> This may be a consequence of action taken over #408033?

I've just tested this on a system running 2.6.18-4-amd64 on the client side,
with smbfs 3.0.25b-1+b1, and I'm not able to reproduce the problem you
describe.

If I mount the filesystem using mount -t smbfs with no uid= option, the
server uids are passed through.  If I mount it with a uid= option, the uid I
specify is how the files show up.

Can you give more details on how you're doing the mount, to be able to
reproduce the problem?

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