smbfs: smbmount ignores uid and gid options

[David Hammerton]

Package: smbfs
Version: 3.0.9-1ubuntu2
Severity: important


Ok, I think it's a problem with the smbfs kernel module or something, as
with my googling I saw someone post the problem (and a patch) to the
kernel mailing list.. but no one replied.

Anyhow, smbfs ignores the uid= and gid= options.
This renders smbmount utterly useless to me. As I'm unable to access any
of the data on the shares I mount, without being root. And who does
stuff as root?
(The default behaviour is to use the uid of the user that owns the files
on the server.. which of course doesn't exist on the client).

Thanks!

David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-3-386
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages smbfs depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-19    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcomerr2               1.35-8ubuntu1   The Common Error Description libra
ii  libkrb53                 1.3.5-1         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-3ubuntu1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  netbase                  4.19ubuntu1     Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  samba-common             3.0.9-1ubuntu2  Samba common files used by both th

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