Re: has anyone successfully accessed a windows share with samba > 3.0.2

[Alois Treindl <alois astro ch>]

John Newbigin wrote:
> Josh Kelley wrote:
>
> > This sounds similar to a problem I had with accessing Samba shares 
> > from Fedora using smbmount.  Apparently recent versions of smbmount 
> > will try to map usernames and groups rather than (necessarily) 
> > observing the UID and GID parameters to smbmount.  Adding local users 
> > and groups that match those on the server fixed my problem.  You 
> > should be able to check if this is happening to you by doing a ls -l 
> > and looking for numeric (and therefore unknown) users and groups.
>
> This sounds like Unix extensions for CIFS.  When that is enabled, the 
> real uid, gid & mode from the server will be seen on the client, not the 
> flags used to mount the filesystem.  You should be able to turn that off 
> on the server and possibly the client with a mount flag.  This would not 
> be related to a windows problem which does not support the Unix extensions.

I am not content with this answer.

When I install sambe 3.0.2 on the Redhat box, it can access these 
windows smbmount.

When I update the same redhat box to samba 3.0.7, it cannot.

when I 'downdate' again to 3.0.2 it works again. Same samba 
configuration files, same everything.

I do not see what this should have to do with anything what you say.