[UniMacTech] Leopard SMB mounting issue

[Jared Heaphy]

Hi

I  have started experiencing slightly different smb mount issues too  
with 10.5 machines. There are two file servers that they connect to, a  
Windows 2003 and an Ubuntu 7.10 server, both use Active Directory for  
authentication. The 2003 shares connect fine, albeit too low in the  
share path. The Ubuntu shares are inconsistent. Some will mount  
perfectly while others will fail with errors. If I reboot the Mac and  
connect to the troublesome shares, they work straight away.

It's a bit of a head scratcher so if anyone has any advice...

Thanks

Jared Heaphy
Staff Computer Support/System Administrator
School of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Otago, Wellington
385-5541 ext 6539




On 19/09/2008, at 3:32 PM, Takeo Echizenya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if anyone is experiencing a SMB mounting issue when  
> connecting to shares hosted on a Win2K3 AD Kerberized server?  The  
> issue appears to affect Leopard only.  Shares mount fine on 10.4.11  
> client.
>
> The issue appears to be in all builds of 10.5 including 10.5.5.   
> Basically the client machine has no issues binding or authenticating  
> against the AD server, but when attempting to mount an SMB/CIFS  
> share it prompts for reauthentication.  This shouldn't be the case  
> if Kerberos is running correctly.
>
> According to Kerberos.app, the client/login has received the correct  
> ticket.  The issue is only affected when doing it via the GUI i.e.  
> Connect to Server.  If the mount_smbfs command is used to mount the  
> share, the share mounts successfully without prompting for  
> reauthentication.
>
> I have also found the same "authentication prompt" issue when  
> printing to AD print queues.  Otherwise printing to AD print queues  
> is fine after entering login details.
>
> Mounting SMB shares is not so much of an issue for us at the moment,  
> as I can write a script to automount the shares upon user login and  
> has proven to work fine so far.  It will only be an issue if a user  
> decides to mount shares manually that are not already mounted.
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Searching in the forums, some users are  
> experiencing the same problem.  Apparently it is a known issue that  
> is still yet to be fixed.
>
> Regards,
> Takeo
>
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>
> Takeo Echizenya
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>
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