Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:44:06 +0300 (EEST) | From | Panu Matilainen <> | Subject | Re: 32bit UID wraps around with smbfs |
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Urban Widmark wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Smbfs has problems with 32bit UID/GID's: when you do > > 'smbmount //some/share /mnt/samba -o uid=100000' the mountpoint UID (and > > GID) wrap around at 65535. > > > > The attached patch, along with samba recompile against fixed headers > > apparently fixes it. This problem is present at least in all 2.4 kernels, > > I haven't looked at 2.5. > > I don't think this is an acceptable fix for the main kernel. You are > changing a binary interface in a stable kernel series.
Yup.. I had my doubts about the changes (I'm not a kernel hacker, just poked around and noticed that things seem to work with that change)
> I personally think that smb_mount_data is a bad idea and are slowly > working on moving smbfs to an ascii interface. With 2.4 any recent > smbmount should be using the ascii interface already, the problem there is > that smbmnt uses the smb_mount_data internally ... > > This patch contains stuff I want to have included in samba 2.2.6, > including fixes for smbmnt's uid-abuse: > http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbmount-2.2.5-misc-2.patch.gz > > And this is needed to change the storage size of the in-kernel mount > struct: > http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbfs-2.4.18-uid32.patch
Thanks, I'll try these out!
-- - Panu -
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