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

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:00:52AM +1300, Alex Jenner wrote:
> >> When I tried mount.cifs I got "mount error 13 = Permission denied".
> >> Even though the same configuration had worked for mount.smbfs.

> > Can you give more details on this?  cifs certainly doesn't require the use
> > of security=share (and security=share is far from a common use case any
> > more), so this is probably a solvable client configuration problem.

> # mount.smbfs //debian/smbrw /mnt -o guest
> Anonymous login successful
> # umount /mnt
> # mount.cifs //debian/smbrw /mnt -o guest
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

> In /var/log/messages - there are messages like...
> Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Ok.  I had to poke at this a bit, but finally was able to connect to a guest
share with mount.cifs.  The key is to use -o sec=none instead of -o guest.
According to both the old smbmount manpage and the mount.cifs manpage, the
"guest" option only means "don't prompt for a password", which is apparently
not sufficient to cause mount.cifs to attempt an anonymous connection.

I suppose we could at least add code to the smbmount wrapper script to
translate "-o guest" to "-o guest,sec=none".

> Note - in my case, the same machine is smb client and server. However,
> without "security = share" a windows pc on the same subnet is unable to
> see the shares either. The windows user is prompted for a username and
> password. So it looks like a server problem to me.

Right, it's a server problem in a sense; see the "map to guest" option in
smb.conf(5), you probably want (at least) map to guest = bad user.

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