[Bug 286828] Re: Access to samba 3.0.24-3.0.25 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10

[Andrew McRae]

As usual in the Linux world we see a lot of dodging and ducking and
passing the buck and pretending that something other than Ubuntu is the
problem. The bug ticket has been marked as "Invalid", and yet the
problem is clearly still here and has not been fixed.

If you try to use smbmount (ie- mount.cifs) in Jaunty it still fails
when trying to save files.

Notice the solutions offered by the people who said it was fixed. They
had to change their configuration or upgrade their SAMBA server to get
it to work! That's a kludge to their system to work around a bug in
Ubuntu. No-one should have to change any parameters to smbmount or fstab
or upgrade the SAMBA server to get their SMB shares mounted properly
when the same commands worked fine in Hardy.

My (former) Hardy and (present) Jaunty configuration uses this Sessions startup command:
  smbmount '\\192.168.1.2\public' /home/andrew/naspublic -o guest

This worked fine in Hardy Heron, but now in Jaunty neither GEdit nor OpenOffice nor Audacious can save changes to files opened from the mountpoint. 
The firmware on my QNAP NAS has not changed, and the command I use to mount the share has not changed since Hardy, but after the "upgrade" to Jaunty none of my apps can save back to the share. The idea that an upstream kernel patch in 2.6.27-11.25 has fixed this is absurd : I'm booting 2.6.28-14 and my machine still has the problem. 

So it's not the kernel, and it's not the user application, and it's not
the user-supplied commands, it's a bug in one of the Ubuntu distribution
packages. Clearly a bug has been written between Hardy and Intrepid and
is still here in Jaunty.

Downgrading the kernel is not an option since then GDM no longer starts
up and without graphics OOo can't run.

There's three short-term workarounds, none of which are nice:
A) Uninstall Jaunty and go back to Hardy, or
B) Switch to using Windows XP, or
C) Copy to local drive, edit, copy back.

Option B actually is the easiest since I dual boot Windows anyway and
could install Microsoft Windows version of OOo if i had to. At least in
Windows when you mount the share as a drive letter it just plain works.

Would prefer it if Ubuntu programmers could just fix the bug.
Get those smbfs guys inspecting the code they changed between Hardy and Intrepid and they will find the defect. It has to be there, that's only logical.

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Access to samba 3.0.24-3.0.25 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286828
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