[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#480663: smbfs: mount.cifs does not work with -o sec=krb

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 480663 smbfs linux-2.6
tags 480663 = confirmed
thanks

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:55:34PM +0200, ant+bdo at hsg-kl.de wrote:
> Package: smbfs
> Version: 1:3.0.28a-2
> Severity: normal

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> When I try to mount a share on a Samba-Server via "mount.cifs
> //server/share mountpoint -o sec=krb5", mount.cifs ask for a password
> (which is not needed with kerberos) and fails with the following
> error-message:

> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

> dmesg says: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5

This is a two part bug.  First, the kernel has to be built with
CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL and CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL in order to do Kerberos
authentication.  Second, cifs.spnego needs to be packaged somewhere so that
the kernel has something to call up to.

The latter part of this should soon be fixed in experimental.

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