[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#452542: Bug#452542: samba: Shares cannot be mounted with smbfs

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Fri Nov 23 18:14:26 UTC 2007


Quoting Sebastian Cruz (crux at lugmen.org.ar):
> Package: samba
> Version: 3.0.24-6etch5
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> I recently upgraded samba from 3.0.24-6etch4 to 3.0.24-6etch5 because of
> a security upgrade. That rendered some shares that I use mounted with
> smbmount (provided in smbfs package) unusable. The shares got mounted
> but they cannot be browsed within Gnome neither the console. Although
> the shares can be browsed using Gnome helper (smb://). 
> 
> I tried browsing and "connecting as a network resource" from a WinXP
> client and that worked fine.


This is a regression introduced in one of the two recent security
fixes. See #451839 for 3.0.27 in lenny.

We suggest you use this opportunity to use cifs instead of smbfs,
which is unsupported upstream.




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