cifs replacing smbfs - how to set up?

[guy keren]

in the samba server file you have a 'workgroup' name - give this as the 
'domain' to the cifs mount options.

also, you can run the samba server on the linux machine in debug mode, 
re-connect the client, perform the operation and start reading the 
log... it's not trivial, but it's do-able.

--guy

Herouth Maoz wrote:
> 
> On 15/06/2009, at 23:31, guy keren wrote:
> 
>>
>> when i switched from smbfs to cifs - i added the 'domain=' parameter, 
>> and used the name defined on the samba server - and had no similar 
>> problems. did you try this?
>>
>> also, i didn't use the file_mode, dir_mode or setuids optoins, that 
>> you are using. i would try to remove them and see if there's any change.
>>
>> finally - what distribution+version is your client? the same for the 
>> linux server? this might be relevant information.
>>
> 
> My client distro is Mandriva 2009.0 - kernel 2.6.27.21-desktop-1mnb
> The server on that particular machine is Debian - kernel 2.6.18-6-686. 
> All of our servers are debians, though not all are the same version.
> 
> As for the "domain" argument - what should I set it to?
> 
> I removed the file_mode and dir_mode parameters, but no help there - I 
> still can't copy a file to an existing file. Removing them just makes 
> the file permissions I get in ls be funny:
> 
> Running ls -l on the client machine gives:
> total 8
> -rwxrwSrwx 1 herouth herouth 121 2009-03-11 18:06 create_dev_pgsql.sql*
> -rwxrwSrwx 1 herouth herouth 125 2009-03-11 18:06 create_prod_pgsql.sql*
> drwxrwxrwx 1 herouth herouth   0 2009-03-17 15:51 CVS/
> 
> Running it on the server machine (connecting with ssh) gives:
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 herouth herouth 4096 Mar 17 15:51 CVS
> -rw-r--r-- 1 herouth herouth  121 Mar 11 18:06 create_dev_pgsql.sql
> -rw-r--r-- 1 herouth herouth  125 Mar 11 18:06 create_prod_pgsql.sql
> 
> Of course the permissions displayed on the client machine are 
> ridiculous. Adding the file_mode and dir_mode parameters gives me 
> "normal" permissions, which are similar most of the time to the real 
> permissions.
> 
> 
> Further help would be appreciated.