mount_smbfs re-exported via samba not working
Mike Tancsa
mike at sentex.net
Thu Dec 1 17:19:28 UTC 2011
Hi,
I am trying to export a series of shares from one Windows XP box, to another so I can better control and log access and am having problems seeing the files. I am not sure if this is a samba issue or an mount_smbfs issue
The setup is
[XP-Server] -------- [FreeBSD]------[DMZ Clients]
So FreeBSD box mount_smbfs from [XP-Server], servs up the share under samab so that the DMZ clients can see it.
I can mount the windows XP file system shares no problem
eg
mount_smbfs -c u -d 777 -f 777 -O xpuser:xpuser -N //xpuser at xpserver/pricelist /export
This shows up, and I can see and create files no problem from the FreeBSD box
# mount -t smbfs
//XPUSER at XPSERVER/PRICELIST on /export (smbfs)
# ls -l /export
total 17
drwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 16384 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxrwxrwx 7 xpuser xpuser - 512 Dec 1 08:04 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 95 Dec 1 10:29 dd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 92 Dec 1 10:58 n
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 92 Dec 1 10:33 new
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 95 Dec 1 10:29 test
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 436 Dec 1 10:34 test2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 xpuser xpuser - 15 Dec 1 10:22 this-is-a-test.txt
Now the problem is when I try and re-export that using samba. The files never show up on the windows PC. e.g on the other PC attached to the DMZ NIC of the FreeBSD server, I try and do something like
net use m: \\192.168.1.1\pl /user:someothersmbuser
I can map the drive, but doing a dir shows no files. if I do something like dir > test, it does actually create the file, but I still cannot see it
If I use smbclient from another FreeBSD box, also in the DMZ
%smbclient -U somesmbuser //192.168.1.1/pl
Enter somesmbuser's password:
Domain=[DMZ] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.1]
smb: \> dir
NT_STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE listing \*
But... I can actually read the files that I know are there and make and change into directories ??!!
smb: \> get dd
getting file \dd of size 95 as dd (1.2 KiloBytes/sec) (average 1.2 KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \> get test2
getting file \test2 of size 436 as test2 (5.6 KiloBytes/sec) (average 3.4 KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \>
smb: \> mkdir testdir
smb: \> cd testdir
smb: \testdir\> dir
NT_STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE listing \testdir\*
smb: \testdir\>
Any idea why its not working
It seems directly listings are the only things not working, even though ls sees them on the FreeBSD box.
If I export a directory in samba that just has a normal UFS file system all works just fine. Its only when I try and export the smbfs system that it does not work. I also try exporting a nullfs mounted file system and that worked, but again, only if the underlying file system was UFS, not smbfs
---Mike
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Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
Sentex Communications, mike at sentex.net
Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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