mount.cifs does not honor 'users' fstab option
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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samba (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am attempting to allow a roaming client to manually mount as a user a samba share. but unfortunately mount.cifs (and mount.smbfs) does not honor the option in fstab.
/etc/fstab:
//stor.lan/storage /mnt/stor.lan cifs users,noauto,
the users option is supposed to allow manual mounting of filesystems by the users themselves.
The share in this case is not required to be permanently mounted but on demand (done by the user via a shortcut).
No sudo is not acceptable (at least in our environment)
Yes i am aware of intr and bg options but this is not feasible with our setup.
mount.cifs/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: smbfs 2:3.4.7~
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-50-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CIFSMounts: Error: command ['mount', '|', 'grep', 'cifs'] failed with exit code 1: mount: only root can do that
Date: Mon Aug 26 18:08:59 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=bg_BG.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaClientRegr
SourcePackage: samba
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
That version is no more supported; and backport is not expected as its not a 'security' problem