samba - Jun 2002 - mount problems with recent mount and samba

I have a problem mounting Samba shares with recent mount packages from 
RedHat and Samba packages from samba site. I have tried samba-2.2.4 RPM 
and samba-2.2.5 (built for RH7.2). In all cases mount fails if I use
RH mount package version > 2.11b  (current is 2.11n). If I also use 
Samba packages (2.2.4) from RedHat Rawhide - everyhting works

Here is detailed description I have submitted to RH bugzilla:

Description of problem:
After upgrading mount from 2.11b (RH 7.1) to later versions (tried - 
2.11g from 7.2,  2.11n from 7.3, 2.11n-15 from Rawhide), attempt to 
mount Samba partion via autofs, as well as with 'mount -t smbfs' fails.
Samba used is one from RPM package at samba site (2.24 or 2.2.5 were 
checked)


smbmount called directly works all right,  backing down to mount 2.11b 
(keeping all other upgrades I made to move, partially, from RH7.1 to 
7.3) restores mount functionality.


Steps to Reproduce:
Setup: RH 7.1 with kernel and glibc (+ dependences) upgraded to RH7.3
mount-2.11n.  Samba-2.2.4 (rpm from samba site) serves share C on 
windows machine called ladybug.  Samba mount point /misc is NOT 
mentioned in fstab

1.   Run smbmount
# smbmount  //ladybug/C /misc
Password: xxxxxxxx
# mount
.....
//ladybug/C on /misc type smbfs
#

2.  unmount
# umount   //ladybug/C
3.  Attempt mounting with mount fails
# mount -V
mount: mount-2.11n
# mount -t smbfs //ladybug/C  /misc
Password: xxxxxxx
execvp of smbmnt failed. Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt 
failed: 1

4.  Restore old RH7.1 mount package and try again
# rpm -U --oldpackage --nodeps mount-2.11b-3.i386.rpm
# mount -V
mount: mount-2.11b
# mount -t smbfs //ladybug/C  /misc
Password: xxxxxxxxxxx
# mount
//ladybug/C on /misc type smbfs (0)

5.  Check smbmnt for any case
# ls -l /usr/sbin/smbmnt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       453868 May  5 14:01 /usr/sbin/smbmnt

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In the reply, RH people wrote that everything works with samba RPM from 
rawhide (2.2.4). This, I checked, is indeed the case.

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
> 3.  Attempt mounting with mount fails
> # mount -V
> mount: mount-2.11n
> # mount -t smbfs //ladybug/C  /misc
> Password: xxxxxxx
> execvp of smbmnt failed. Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt 
> failed: 1
It means that smbmnt is not in the current path and it is also not in the
installation directory where smbmount looks for it.

> 5.  Check smbmnt for any case
> # ls -l /usr/sbin/smbmnt
And that is supposed to be /usr/bin since smbmount looks in BINDIR (I have
a smbmount patch that I'm about to submit that makes it look in SBINDIR
too).

Note that when you run mount it changes your path, possibly that makes 
some difference between mounts.

In any case, this is a matter of bad packages. Move/Copy/Symlink smbmnt to
/usr/bin and it will work.

/Urban