Comment 0 for bug 286828

Binary package hint: smbfs

System info:
smbfs:
  Installed: 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ uname -a
Linux firefly 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 22:24:30 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Expected results:
CIFS mounts keeps working after upgrade.

Results:
After upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 (roughly one week ago, on the 23rd of Oct 08) using update-manager -d my CIFS mounts stopped working properly. I did not change any settings between them, and I have another machine on this network that is still running 8.04 and that doesn't have any problems.

They mount fine, and I can, with some effort, copy and read files from it (though I have to do it manually, as many programs will whine). As an example (here /mnt/diverse is my cifs mountpoint, mounted from a MyBook network drive):
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ ls -l /mnt/diverse/test
ls: cannot access /mnt/diverse/test: No such file or directory
[2 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ touch /mnt/diverse/test
touch: setting times of `/mnt/diverse/test': Not a directory
[1 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ ls -l /mnt/diverse/test
-rwxr--r-- 1 zerodogg zerodogg 0 Oct 21 08:39 /mnt/diverse/test

[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ ls -l /mnt/diverse/test2
ls: cannot access /mnt/diverse/test2: No such file or directory
[2 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ touch test2
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ mv test2 /mnt/diverse/
`test2' -> `/mnt/diverse/test2'
mv: preserving times for `/mnt/diverse/test2': Not a directory
mv: setting permissions for `/mnt/diverse/test2': Not a directory
removed `test2'
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ chmod 644 /mnt/diverse/test2
chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/diverse/test2': Not a directory
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ rsync -avzh --progress --partial test3 /mnt/diverse/
sending incremental file list
test3
           0 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/diverse/.test3.mllG7b" failed: Not a directory (20)

sent 87 bytes received 31 bytes 236.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1058) [sender=3.0.3]

The same commands, on the same mount on the 8.04 machine works perfectly fine. It also worked fine on this (8.10) machine before the upgrade.

The relevant fstab entry (I have tried with and without dir_mode,file_mode,nounix):
//mybook/DIVERSE /mnt/diverse cifs username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0750,file_mode=0640,noauto,user,exec 0 0
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ mount |grep div
//zdmybook/DIVERSE on /mnt/diverse type cifs (rw,mand,nosuid,nodev)

The fstab entry on the 8.04 box:
//zdmybook/DIVERSE /mnt/Diverse smbfs username=USER,password=PASSWORd,uid=1000,gid=1001,noauto,user,noatime 0 0

And as an example, this time from the 8.04:
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ touch /mnt/diverse/123
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ ls -l /mnt/diverse/123
-rwxr--r-- 1 lisbeth zerodogg 0 2008-10-21 08:53 /mnt/diverse/123
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ mount|\grep div
//zdmybook/DIVERSE on /mnt/diverse type cifs (rw,mand,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy smbfs
smbfs:
  Installed: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5
  Candidate: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
[0 lisbeth@lisbeth ~]$ uname -a
Linux lisbeth 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 16:57:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux