Re: smb.conf and preexec

[Chris Kaltwasser <chris@vote-smart.org>]

tony mollica wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian
> 2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3
> network.  Most everything works nicely, but
> I can't get the cdrom's (2 scsi) on the Linux
> box to automount with "preexec = ".  The fstab
> is set as follows and as recommended in the smb.conf
> file:
> 
> /dev/scd0 /cd0 iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0
> 
> The smb.conf entry is
> 
> [cd0]
>     comment = Samba Server's cdrom 0
>     writable = no
>     locking = no
>     path = /cd0
>     public = yes
>     preexec /bin/mount  /cd0
>     postexec /bin/umount /cd0
...

Looks to me like the problem may be very simple -- try:

preexec = /bin/mount /cd0
postexec = /bin/mount /cd0

I seem to recall reading in a man page or other doc at one point that Samba
won't like it if you forget those "=" signs, and that just makes sense.

Chris

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